[ELS]

Two videos showing today's incident:
Video 1
Video 2



A combination of TV grabs shows the sequence of a man leaping over a barricade during Pope Benedict's weekly audience in Vatican City, June 6, 2007. (Vatican TV via Reuters TV/Reuters)

Pope Benedict XVI greets members of a U.S. Navy delegation after his weekly general audience at the Vatican June 6, 2007. REUTERS/Osservatore Romano (VATICAN)

Pope Benedict XVI waves to the faithful during his weekly Wednesday general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican June 6, 2007. REUTERS/Tony Gentile (VATICAN)

[ELS]

Recent catecheses on the Early Church Fathers:
On St. Clement of Rome -The Church Has a Sacramental, Not Political Structure (March 7, 2007)
Truly a Doctor of Unity (St. Ignatius of Antioch) (March 14, 2007)
St. Justin Martyr: He Considered Christianity the "True Philosophy" (March 21, 2007)
St. Irenaeus of Lyons: The First Great Theologian of the Church (March 28, 2007)
St. Clement of Alexandria: One of the Great Promoters of Dialogue Between Faith and Reason (April 18, 2007)
On Origen of Alexandria: He Was a True Teacher (April 25, 2007)
Origen: The Privileged Path to Knowing God Is Love (May 2, 2007)
Tertullian: Accomplished a Great Step in the Development of the Trinitarian Dogma (May 30, 2007)

[Coleus]

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[lightman]

One of the very few good things to come with the newest hymnal and liturgy manual of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is that this godly Bishop and courageous Martyr has been added to the Lutheran calendar of Commemorations.

[NYer]

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