Pope Benedict Marks the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

(08 Dec 07 - RV) Pope Benedict XVI marked the feast of the Immaculate Conception today by praying before a statue of Our Lady, near Rome’s Spanish Steps. Earlier in the day during his Angelus in St Peter’s Square, the Holy Father appealed to the young to be on guard against the false model of happiness offered by consumerism. Veronica Scarisbrick reports...