VATICAN CITY, JUNE 28, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Benedict XVI's visit last Sunday to San Giovanni Rotondo, where Padre Pio is buried, served to disclose the meaning of pain, a Vatican spokesman affirmed.

Jesuit Father Federico Lombardi, director of the Vatican press office, noted in his weekly editorial on the Vatican Television program "Octava Dies," the "unforgettable" witness made by a woman named Anna who greeted the Pontiff during the daytrip.

VATICAN CITY, JUNE 7, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Each person carries an imprint of the Trinity and its tendency toward love in his genetic material, affirms Benedict XVI.

The Pope said this today before praying the midday Angelus with those gathered in St. Peter's Square, in which he offered a reflection on the Trinity "as it was made know to us by Jesus."

Christ revealed that "God is love 'not in the unity of a single person, but in the Trinity of a single substance,'” the Holy Father said, quoting the preface.

VATICAN CITY, MAY 27, 2009 (Zenit.org).- Love for work and diligence in one's tasks are indicators of fervor in the spiritual life, according to the saint that Benedict XVI spoke of today at the general audience.

Addressing some 15,000 people gathered in St. Peter's Square, the Pope continued his series of catechesis on writers and figures from the Church of the Middle Ages, focusing today on St. Theodore the Studite (759-826).