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...fanfares and Kathleen Battle leading the crowd in "Happy Birthday" in honor of the Pontiff's 81st. Later in the day he made a speech on climate change. On Thursday he sees the British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and on Friday the South Korean Prime Minister arrives for a visit to Camp David. Bush then flies to New Orleans for meetings with the leaders of Canada and Mexico...
...minute wide-ranging speech and commentary Wednesday following a prayer service to American bishops at the capital's National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. Of course, the Bishop of Rome is very much the first among equals in this ecclesiastical fraternity, the boss from Rome paying a visit to one of his the key affiliates. Indeed, one should look at this speech much as if Benedict were a CEO making a major address to upper management, his words as a kind of spiritual "action plan." As always, improving the organization involves the kind of frank talk that the CEO usually...
...wins Brown little credit in the endemically cynical London media and political village. It may go down better in the land that he freely admits to loving. Typically, Brown has a policy proposal ready for the U.S. presidential candidates, one he ran past McCain during the Senator's recent visit to London. "I was trying to sell him on the idea that America's gift to the world should be to offer every child the chance of education," says Brown, adding that there are 72 million primary school-age children in the world not enrolled for class. "That would...
...make up, Benedict has scheduled several Jewish events this week. At 6:30 p.m. on Thursday he will address Jews along with representatives of other religions at Washington's John Paul II Center. On Friday at 5:00 p.m. he will become the first Pope to visit an American synagogue when he drops by to deliver Passover greetings at Manhattan's Park East synagogue. The only controversy may occur at his Thursday 9:30 a.m. Mass at Washington's Nationals Park. The gospel passage the Pope has chosen is the verse from the Gospel of John including Jesus' offering...
...mobile, as opposed to the one used in St. Peter's Square - will roll in Washington on Wednesday and Thursday. It will be in use in New York on Saturday after Benedict's 9:15 a.m. Mass at Saint Patrick's Cathedral and during his Saturday 4:30 p.m. visit to St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. It will tool around Yankee Stadium, where he will celebrate Sunday Mass...