Pope’s ambassador to host the boss on a grand stage

RNS’ Daniel Burke interviews Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the Vatican’s ambassador to the US, in advance of Pope Benedict’s visit, in this week’s full text article, linked above.

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“Pope Benedict is not known enough in the United States,” Sambi said. “What is known is not based on his personality but is based on the position that he had before as prefect of the Congregation for Doctrine of the Faith. … As such, there are people who consider him a man of very solid principles, extremely rigid, inflexible, almost non-human.

“It’s true that he’s a man of principle, but it will be enough to see him and to listen to him to discover a man of great human sensibility.”