Pope sends Vatican aid to Katrina victims
Posted on: Sunday, 4 September 2005, 07:37 CDT
CASTELGANDOLFO, Italy (Reuters) - Pope Benedict announced on Saturday he had asked the Vatican's central charity organization, Cor Unum, to coordinate Roman Catholic aid for the victims of Hurricane Katrina.
"We have all been pained in the last few days by the disaster caused by the hurricane in the United States of America, particularly in New Orleans," Benedict said during his Sunday address.
"I have asked the president of Cor Unum to give to those hit evidence of my closeness to them," he told hundreds of people gathered outside his summer residence near Rome.
The pope also prayed for the hundreds of Iraqis killed in Baghdad last week during a stampede in a huge crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims caused by fears of a suicide bomber in their midst.
Cor Unum, which means "One Heart" in Latin, helps to coordinate Vatican relief funds but tends to operate separately from wealthy national churches and large dioceses.
The U.S. Catholic Church, the religion's wealthiest, would be organizing its own fundraising campaign.
The German-born pontiff gave no further details about the Cor Unum aid.
Source: REUTERS
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