Tuesday, December 05, 2006
NO KISSINGER AFTER ALL
In a link from Spirit Daily, CNS reports:
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI does not have a foreign affairs advisory board, and he has not asked former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to become one of his advisers, the Vatican spokesman said.
Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi said it is true that Kissinger met privately with the pope Sept. 28 and that Mary Ann Glendon, a U.S. law professor and president of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences, has invited Kissinger to speak to the academy at the Vatican in late April.
"Those are the only two concrete facts," Father Lombardi told Catholic News Service.
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