POPE, GERMAN BISHOPS AND CURIA OFFICIALS HOLD MEETING

VATICAN CITY, SEP 15, 1999 (VIS) - Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls made the following declaration this afternoon:

"A meeting is underway in Castelgandolfo between the German Cardinals Joachim Meisner, Georg Maximilian Sterzinsky and Friedrich Wetter, the president of the German Episcopal Conference, and the heads of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and of the Secretariat of State.

"At the end of the morning there was a meeting with the Holy Father.

"Work will continue this afternoon. At the end of the encounter the Holy See Press Office will issue a communique."

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