Happy Birthday Holy Father

Here at Vatican Radio we'd like to wish the Holy Father a very 'Happy Birthday'!

To celebrate this special day, the 16th of April 2012, we bring him the greetings of the Archbishop of Liverpool, Patrick Kelly:

"We're celebrating his birthday massively grateful to God for giving us somebody whom I believe embodies the words of Cardinal Newman 'loving wisdom ' and 'wisest love'. And that is healing, it's encouraging and it is a source of joy which shines through. It is an Easter message which doesn't say there is no such thing as sin and evil but accepts as in the words of the new translation : 'we are overcome with Paschal joy'.

"We pray that will be the joy of the Holy Father on his birthday".

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