Monday, March 13, 2006

In the On-Deck Circle....

Later today, Benedict XVI will be receiving the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in private audience.

Given the meeting and the recent appointment of Archbishop Michael Fitzgerald, previously president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, as apostolic nuncio to Cairo, a lot of Vatican attention has been going to Egypt of late....

Could it be the kingpin of Benedict's Mideast push?

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