Vatican City, Apr 20, 2005 / 22:00 pm
Yesterday, Vatican press director Joaquin Navarro-Valls announced the upcoming schedule and previous day’s activities for newly elected Pope Benedict XVI.
Navarro-Valls said that yesterday, the Holy Father “visited the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith where, in the course of a very cordial meeting, he greeted the men and women who collaborated with him in that dicastery.”
Afterwards, he noted, Pope Benedict “entered the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace, removing the seals,” although for the time, he has chosen to remain in the apartment of the Domus Sanctae Marthae, where the College of Cardinals were housed during the conclave.
"The Holy Father”, Navarro-Valls said, “invited some of his collaborators in the Roman Curia to lunch in the 'Domus Sanctae Marthae,' deciding on some of his forthcoming engagements.”