WHO'S TRAVELLING WITH THE POPE
:
ALL ABOUT THE PAPAL FLIGHT
By Barbara Marino/ 09/05/2007
There are 103 passengers on board today's papal flight to Sao Paulo - the Pope himself, 31 in his entourage and 71 journalists.
The Papal entourage includes 4 cardinals, 3 bishops, 5 priests and 19 lay staff.
The cardinals are Vatican Secretary of State, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone; Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, Prefect of the Congregation for Buishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America; Cardinal Claudio Hummes, Prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy and former Archbishop of Sao Paulo; Portuguese Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, Prefect of the Congregation for the Cause of saints.
Cardinals Re and Hummes will not be returning to Rome with the Pope, as they will both be among the presiding officers at the fifth General Cofnerence of Latin American and Caribbean bishops, which the Pope will inaugurate on May 13 and which will take place till May 31.
The bishops on the passenger list are Mons. Leonardo Sandri, undersecretary of State (with two other State officials); Mons. Josef Cordes, president of the Pontifical Council for charity Cor Unum; Mons. Piero Marini, liturgical master and his assistant Mons. Enrico Vigano.
On the Pope's personal staff: his two private secretaries, Mons. Georg Gaenswein and Mieczyslaw (Mietek) Mokrycki; the Pope's personal physician, Dr. Renato Buzzonetti; Dr. Patrizio Polisco of the Vatican health department; and Paolo Gabriele, the Pope's valet.
The other members of the papal entourage: Fr. Federico Lombardi, S.J., director of the Vatican Press Office, Vatican Radio and CTV; Prof. Mario Agnes, editor of L’Osservatore Romano; Arturo Mari, photographer; two Vatican Radio teechnicians; two CTV cameramen; Alberto Gasbarri, Papal trip coordinator, and his assistant Paolo Corvini from the Secretariat of State's protocol office; the security detail headed by Domenico Giani, with 4 members of the Vatican Gendarmerie, and Major Peter Hasler and Sgt. Daniel Koch of the Swiss Guards.
From the time the Pope arrives in Sao Paulo, the following will become part of his entourage: the president of CELAM and the Fifth General Conference, Cardinale Francisco J. Errázuriz Ossa; the president of the Brazilian bishops conference, Mons.; Mons. Odilo Scherer, Archbishop of Sao Paulo and Brazilian coordinator of the papal visit; the Apostolic Nuncio in Brazil, Archbishop Lorenzo Baldisseri; and three other Nunciature officials.
The airline crew includes 3 pilots, plus cabin crew, technical and security personnel, and a coordinator for air transfers.
The seventy media representatives on bord include:
- Vik van Brantegem, assistant Press Office director, with an editor, two photographers and 2 more CTV cameramen);
- Seven photo-reporters from AFP, AP, Reuters, SIPA, Famiglia Cristiana (Alessa Giuliani) and Corriere della Sera magazine (Gianni Giansanti);
- 23 radio-TV newsmen (7 cameramen, 1 producer, 11 correspondents and 4 radio broadcasters) representing AP, Reuters, Rede Globo TV and Canção Nuova Radio TV of Brazil, TG5 Mediaset (Marina Ricci Buttiglione), RAI-Vatican (Giuseppe De Carli), Mexican TV (Valentina Alazraki), Telepace (Mons. Guido Todeschini), Sat2000 (Cristiana Caricato), SKY TG24 (Stefano Paci), di Radio Cope (Paloma Gomez Borrero) of Spain; ZDF, Radiogiornale RAI, Portuguese Radio Renascença, RCN Colombia, and US networks ABC and Fox TV.
- Newspaper representatives include 11 Italians, 5 Americans, 4 Frenchmen, 3 Germans, 3 Spanish, 2 Brazilian, 1 British and 1 Russian.
Familiar names among the journalists are: Luigi Accattoli of Corriere della Sera, Giovanna Chirri of ANSA, Alessandra Borghese for Hachette-Rusconi publications, Franca Giansoldati of Il Messaggero, Andreas English for Axel Springer Verlag, Philip Pullella of Reuters, Antoini-Marie Izouard of I.Media, Salvatore Mazza of Avvenire, Marco Politi of La Repubblica, Serena Sartini of Apcom, Andrea Tornielli of Il Giornale and Marco Tosatti of La Stampa. [the korazym story doesn't mention him, but John Allen said he would be on the Papal flight.]
The Papal flight is an Alitalia B777. The flight is 9,477 kms long and will last 12 and a half hours. It will fly over the following countries: Italy, France, Algeria, Mauretania, Senegal, and Brazil.
The cost of the round trip to the passengers is 3,3000 euros.
To save you some scrolling, here's the 'tip sheet' for today which is farther up the page before this:
APOSTOLIC VOYAGE TO BRAZIL
Today's Program
Brazil time is Rome time + 5 hours
I T A L Y
Wednesday, May 9
Fiumicino (Rome)
09.00 Departure from Leonardo da Vinci international airport
for São Paulo/Guarulhos.
B R A Z I L
Guarulhos (São Paulo)
16.30 Arrival at the international airport of São Paulo/Guarulhos.
WELCOME CEREMONIES
- Address by the Holy Father
17.30 Transfer by helicopter from São Paulo/Guarulhos
to the airport of Campo di Marte [old airport of São Paulo].
18.00 Arrival at Campo de Marte.
Greetings from local officials.
18.10 Travel by Popemobile
to the Monastery of St. Benedict in central São Paulo.
18.45 Arrival at the Monastery,
where he will be staying till May 11.
- Greeting and blessing the faithful
from the balcony of the Monastery.
Interactive map showing the places and times where the Pope will be during his visit to Brazil.
www.visitadopapa.org.br/pagina.php?id=48
Link to SkyTV for Italian coverage:
www.skylife.it/videoTg24Single/34744
Link to Brazilian TV for listing of all video clips so far
about the Papal visit:
video.globo.com/Videos/Busca/0,,7959,00.html?b=bento%20xvi
Once you get any video clip, you can navigate the site to get the latest.
[Modificato da TERESA BENEDETTA 09/05/2007 12.02]