Vatican City, 17 October 2014 (VIS) –
Benedict XVI will attend the beatification of Paul VI in St. Peter's
Square this Sunday, according to the director of the Holy See Press
Office, Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J. The Pope emeritus was made a
cardinal by the new blessed, and the ceremony will be attended by
another two cardinals created by the pontiff, author of “Populorum
Progressio”: Paulo Evaristo Arns, archbishop emeritus of Sao Paulo,
Brazil, and William Wakefield Baum, major penitentiary emeritus.
A press conference was held this
morning in the Holy See Press Office to present the figure of the new
blessed and his relevance to the contemporary Church. The speakers
were Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, prefect emeritus of the
Congregation for Bishops; Fr. Pierantonio Lanzoni, episcopal delegate
for the promotion of the memory of Paul VI in the diocese of Brescia,
where the pontiff was born in the town of Concesio in 1897; Fr.
Antonio Marrazzo, C.SS.R., postulator of the cause for beatification
and Fr. Davide Milani, spokesperson for the diocese of Milan, where
Cardinal Montini was archbishop between 1954 and 1963. This
afternoon, Cardinal Paul Poupard, president emeritus of the
Pontifical Council for Culture and Fr. Angelo Maffeis, president of
the Paul VI Institute in Brescia, will speak on Vatican Radio,
accompanied by Fausto Montini, Paul VI's nephew.
Thousands of pilgrims will attend the
beatification and the events linked to it, the first of which will
take place tomorrow, Saturday 18, in the Roman Basilica of the Twelve
Apostles, when Cardinal Angelo Scola, current archbishop of Milan,
will preside at Vespers. At 10.30 a.m. on Sunday, in St. Peter's
Square, the mass of beatification will be celebrated by Pope Francis
and at 9.30 a.m. on Monday 20, in the Basilica of St. Paul
Outside-the-Walls, Cardinal Angelo Scola will celebrate a mass of
thanksgiving for the faithful of the dioceses of Milan and Brescia.
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