By Gary Stern
Journal News
November 12, 2007
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Pope Benedict XVI will visit St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers on the afternoon of April 19 as part of six-day trip to Washington and New York that will also take him to Ground Zero.
He will meet with youth and seminarians at St. Joseph's. Pope John Paul II visited the seminary, known in the Catholic world as Dunwoodie, in 1995.
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| Pope Benedict XVI. The last visit to Yonkers by a pope was in 1995, by John Paul II. Photo by Plinio LepriPlinio Lepri |
"I have assured the Holy Father of a warm and prayerful welcome,"Cardinal Edward Egan said in a statement. "We all look forward to his visit with pleasure and anticipation."
Benedict himself visited the seminary back in 1988, when he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger.
Archbishop Pietro Sambi, apostolic nuncio to the United States, released information about the papal visit this morning at the start of the fall meeting of the U.S. Bishops Conference in Baltimore.
Benedict is scheduled to arrive in Washington on April 15 and will be welcomed at the White House the next day. Later on the 16th - which will be his 81st birthday - he will address the American bishops.
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The next day, the pope will celebrate Mass at the new Nationals baseball stadium in Washington. He will also meet that day with Catholic education officials at the Catholic University in Washington. He will also attend an interreligious meeting at the Pope John Paul II Cultural Center there.
On April 18, the pope will come to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly. He will attend an ecumenical meeting in the afternoon.
On the 19th, he will celebrate Mass at St. Patrick's Cathedral in the morning and then head to Yonkers in the afternoon.
The next day, Benedict will visit Ground Zero and celebrate Mass at Yankee Stadium.
No plan has been announced for distributing tickets for Yankee Stadium, but they will likely be distributed through parishes in the Archdiocese of New York and neighboring dioceses.
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