BENEDICT XVI ATTENDED A CONCERT IN THE SISTINE CHAPEL on the evening of Saturday 17 January during which the Requiem Mass in D Minor K. 427 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) was performed. The event was organised to celebrate the 85th birthday of the Pope's elder brother, Msgr. Georg Ratzinger, director emeritus of the cathedral choir of Regensburg, Germany.
CARDINAL PAUL JOSEF CORDES, PRESIDENT of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", at the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, will visit Manila from 19 to 24 January to reflect together with the bishops on the teaching reaffirmed in Pope Benedict XVI's first Encyclical 'Deus Caritas Est', and listen to the diverse experiences of the local Churches. In the course of his trip, Cardinal Cordes will visit the poor, the sick and the suffering. He will also meet Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of the Philippines, and be awarded an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila, the oldest university in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities.
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CARDINAL PAUL JOSEF CORDES, PRESIDENT of the Pontifical Council "Cor Unum", at the invitation of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of the Philippines, will visit Manila from 19 to 24 January to reflect together with the bishops on the teaching reaffirmed in Pope Benedict XVI's first Encyclical 'Deus Caritas Est', and listen to the diverse experiences of the local Churches. In the course of his trip, Cardinal Cordes will visit the poor, the sick and the suffering. He will also meet Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, president of the Philippines, and be awarded an honorary doctorate from the Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas in Manila, the oldest university in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities.
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