At his general audience this morning, Benedict XVI dedicated his catechesis to Rabanus Maurus, abbot of the monastery of Fulda, archbishop of Mainz and “praeceptor Germaniae”. The audience, held in St. Peter’s Square, was attended by more than 17,000 people.
Rabanus, born in the city of Mainz about the year 780, entered a Benedictine monastery [...]

The Holy Father:
- Appointed Bishop George Joseph Lucas of Springfield in Illinois, U.S.A., as metropolitan archbishop of Omaha (area 36,392, population 897,254, Catholics 230,430, priests 283, permanent deacons 193, religious 416), U.S.A. The archbishop-elect was born in Saint Louis, U.S.A. in 1949, he was ordained a priest in 1975 and consecrated [...]