ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI
This is the annual address of the Holy Father to the Diplomatic Corps found on the Vatican Website . Please click the link to read the entire address and to see all the embedded hyperlinks. It is an excellent address on the need for the Natural Law to regulate societies. 1. I extend cordial greetings to your Dean, Ambassador Giovanni Galassi, and I thank him for the kind words that he has addressed to me in the name of the Diplomatic Corps accredited to the Holy See. To each of you I offer respectful greetings, particularly to those who are present at this meeting for the first time. Through you, I express my fervent prayers for the peoples and governments that you represent with such dignity and competence. Your community suffered a bereavement some weeks ago: the Ambassador of France, Monsieur Bernard Kessedjian, ended his earthly pilgrimage; may the Lord welcome him into his peace! My thoughts today go especially to the nations that have yet to establish diplomatic relations with...