THE SACRAMENT OF PENANCE IN THE MESSAGES OF JOHN PAUL II

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2000 (VIS) - On Tuesday June 13, at 11:30 a.m. in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinal William Wakefield Baum, major penitentiary, will present the book "The Sacrament of Penance in the Messages of the Supreme Pontiff John Paul II to the Apostolic Penitentiary."

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ARCHBISHOP FOLEY ON ETHICS IN ADVERTISING AND COMMUNICATIONS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2000 (VIS) - Archbishop John P. Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications, is in London where today, at the Queen Elizabeth Conference Center, he addressed the Millennium Congress of the International Advertising Association on the topic "Ethics in Advertising and Communications."

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CARDINAL SODANO RECEIVES PRESIDENT OF IRAQI PARLIAMENT

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2000 (VIS) - Holy See Press Office Director Joaquin Navarro-Valls made the following declaration this afternoon:

"Today, June 9, President Saadoun Hammadi of the Iraqi parliament, along with a delegation, was received in audience by Cardinal Angelo Sodano, secretary of state, who was accompanied by Archbishop Jean-Louis Tauran, secretary for relations with States.

"The talks allowed for a broad exchange of opinions on the situation in Iraq, with special reference to the negative effects of the sanctions on the living conditions of the population.

"The Iraq delegation was shown how much has been done by Pope John Paul II and by the Holy See in favor of Iraq, from the start of the Gulf War right to today.

"The cardinal secretary of state assured his interlocutors of the closeness of the Holy See to the suffering populations."

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OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. Arthe Guimond, diocesan administrator since 1998 of the archdiocese of Grouard-McLenna (area 224,596; population 114,760, Catholics 44,397, priests 22; religious 22), Canada, as metropolitan archbishop of the same archdiocese. The archbishop-elect was born in 1931 in Rimouski, Canada, and was ordained a priest in 1957.

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AUDIENCES

VATICAN CITY, JUN 9, 2000 (VIS) - The Holy Father today received in audience Archbishop Tarcisio Bertone, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

This evening he is scheduled to receive Cardinal Lucas Moreira Neves and Archbishop Francesco Monterisi, respectively prefect and secretary of the Congregation for Bishops.

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