Cardinal Arinze wishes Pope "Happy Birthday"

Pope Benedict XVI on Monday is celebrating his 85th birthday. Congratulations and good wishes have been coming in from around the world.

“We wish the Holy Father a happy birthday,” said the Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, Cardinal Francis Arinze. “Our wishes for him are of joy, peace, and his seeing the faith in Christ make great progress, that faith for which the pope sacrifices himself totally.”

He told Vatican Radio the whole Church is united with the Holy Father on this day.

“We wish him joy, we wish him good health, and we wish him also that peace that will come from knowing he is doing God’s will, and that the bishops, priests, and the whole Church are united with him,” Cardinal Arinze said. “It will indeed be for the Pope a Happy Birthday.”

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