Facing mounting protests, Pope Benedict XVI on January 15 canceled a long-planned talk at Rome's La Sapienza University.(Briefly noted)(Brief article)

From: The Christian Century | Date: February 12, 2008 | Copyright information

Facing mounting protests, Pope Benedict XVI on January 15 canceled a long-planned talk at Rome's La Sapienza University. "Following the widely noted vicissitudes of recent days ... it was considered opportune to postpone the event," the Vatican said in a statement quoted by the Italian news agency ANSA. It was a rare cancellation in not being attributed to an illness. The statement added that the pope would still send the text of the speech he had planned to deliver in person ...

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