At the end of today’s general audience, the Pope addressed a special greeting to Catholic doctors present among the public. “May your work”, he said, “which serves human beings from conception until natural death, always be an eloquent testimony of human and Christian solidarity”.
Then, recalling how on Friday he will begin his apostolic trip [...]

In his general audience held this morning in St. Peter’s Square, the Pope focused his remarks on St. John Damascene (675- 749), “a leading figure in the history of Byzantine theology”.
Above all, said Benedict XVI, this saint was “an eye witness to the move from the Greek and Syriac culture shared by the eastern [...]