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Pope's trip to Germany takes shape

By John Thavis
Catholic News Service

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI's September trip to Germany will include meetings with political leaders, Lutherans and Orthodox Christians, German church officials said.

The German bishops' conference on April 12 released the schedule of the pope's Sept. 22-25 visit, which will take him to the German capital, Berlin, and the cities of Erfurt and Freiburg. It will be the pope's third visit to his homeland.

The papal visit begins in Berlin, where he will meet with German President Christian Wulff at the Bellevue Palace. Later in the day, the pope will address civil and political representatives at the Bundestag, the lower house of parliament, and meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. In the evening, he will celebrate Mass in front of the Charlottenburg Palace, the former royal residency.

On Sept. 23, the pope will fly to Erfurt in central Germany. There he will meet with leaders of the Evangelical Lutheran Church at the Augustinian monastery where Martin Luther took his monastic vows in the early 1500s. Later the pope will preside over an evening prayer service in the nearby town of Etzelsbach.

The next day, the pope will celebrate Mass in the Cathedral Square in Erfurt, and then travel to the southwestern state of Baden-Wurttemberg. In Freiburg, he will meet with Orthodox representatives and hold an evening encounter with young people.

On the final day of his visit, the pope will celebrate Mass at the Freiburg airport, meet with German bishops and address Catholic leaders at the city's concert hall before returning to Rome in the evening.

The German bishops said that during his visit, the pope would also meet with Jewish and Muslim representatives.

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From Her Majesty to His Holiness: two birthday presents

By David Kerr

Vatican City, Apr 15, 2011 / 11:29 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth sent two presents to Pope Benedict XVI on April 15. Her first gift was a telegram containing best wishes for the pontiff’s 84th birthday tomorrow, and the second was a new U.K. ambassador to the Holy See.

Nigel Baker is the man chosen as Her Majesty’s latest representative to the Vatican. According to The Telegraph newspaper, 44-year-old Baker worked briefly at the British Conservative Party’s headquarters in the late 1980s. Interestingly, one of his co-workers there is the now British Prime Minister, David Cameron. Since joining the U.K. Foreign Office in 1989, Baker has held postings in Prague, Havana and most recently Bolivia, where he was ambassador. He also spent three years as Private Secretary to Prince Charles, The Prince of Wales.

The U.K. Foreign Office says Baker knows Italy well, having spent an academic sabbatical in Verona and Naples between 1996 and 1998. While he isn’t a Catholic, his Slovakian wife, Sasha, is. They have one son.

Upon his appointment Baker said, “I am delighted and honoured to be taking up this posting. The last few years have seen the development of a strong and fruitful global partnership between the United Kingdom and the Holy See. The historic visit of Pope Benedict XVI in September 2010 reinforced that relationship and opened new avenues for bilateral and multilateral collaboration.”

The new ambassador said he looks forward to the “challenge of deepening our engagement across the many issues on which we work together.”

Baker takes over from Francis Campbell, the first Catholic to hold the post of ambassador to the Holy See since the English Reformation in the 16th century.

Prior to today’s appointment, there had been speculation that the ambassadorship would be offered to one of several prominent Catholic politicians. Names bandied about included the former Conservative government minister and Catholic convert, Anne Widdicombe, as well as the former Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament, Lord David Alton.

The Treasurer of the U.K. Parliament’s All Party Group on the Holy See, Angus Brendan MacNeil MP, told CNA that the new ambassador has big job ahead of him, “Francis Campbell certainly leaves big shoes to fill. So I wish Mr Baker well. The biggest challenge for him will be to build upon the great success of last year’s Papal Visit to Scotland and England.”

Baker will take up his appointment during August 2011.

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Rev 14:7  Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.

Rev 14:8  And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Rev 14:9  And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,

Rev 14:10  The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:

Rev 14:11  And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.

Rev 14:12  Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

Rev 14:13  And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.

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