Pope comes to U.N. as 'a beacon of peace,' archbishop says

Published: 2008-04-14

NEW YORK (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI will visit the United Nations April 18 as "a beacon of peace," Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the Vatican's U.N. nuncio, said April 9 at Columbia University's Earl Hall. The pope "will say that might doesn't make right, (that) our future must be based on universal truth and common peace for humanity," the archbishop told an audience of 250 people. "I've been besieged with questions of what the pope will say at the U.N.," he said. "I don't mind the questions though. It's proof that people are interested in what the pope has to say to the world." The archbishop was one of four panelists who discussed the pontiff's teachings and their relevance to American culture. The event, which had as its theme "Only Something Infinite Will Suffice," was co-sponsored by the Crossroads Cultural Center, which is a local project of Communion and Liberation, and Columbia University's Catholic campus ministry.

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