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Vatican official in US to promote papal encyclical September 18, 2006
Archbishop Joseph Cordes, the president of the Pontifical Council Cor Unum, is in the US this week for a series of presentations on the papal encyclical Deus Caritas Est.
As head of Cor Unum, the charitable arm of the papacy, Archbishop Cordes was one of the leading Vatican prelates who introduced Deus Caritas Est to the press when the encylical was first unveiled on January 25. Now he is traveling to America, making the US his first stop in a campaign to encourage concrete applications of the encyclical. The archbishop will speak in Madison, Wisconsin; Detroit, and Washington, DC.
"Catholic Americans were touched by the appeal" of the encyclical, Cor Unum said in announcing the archbishop's trip. Noting the many Catholic charities located in the country, the announcement said that Archbishop Cordes would try to help his American audiences connect the themes of the Pope's encyclical to their practical work in relief efforts.
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