18: Benedict XVI receives in audience George Abela, president of Malta.
19: On today's Solemnity of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Pope inaugurates the Year for Priests, called to mark the 150th anniversary of the death of St. John Mary Vianney.
19: Benedict XVI receives in audience His Beatitude Ignace Youssif III Younan, the new Catholic patriarch of Antioch of the Syrians.
21: Holy Father makes a pastoral visit to San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy.
27: Holy Father receives prelates from the Episcopal Conference of Vietnam at the end of their "ad limina" visit.
28: Holy Father presides at first Vespers in the basilica of St. Paul's Outside-the-Walls for the Solemnity of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles, officially marking the closure of the Pauline Year.
JULY
4: Holy Father presides at Vespers in the Pauline Chapel of the Apostolic Place to mark its reopening following seven years of restoration work.
4: Benedict XVI sends a letter to Silvio Berlusconi, Italian prime minister, for the meeting of the heads of State and Government of the industrialized countries (G8), due to take place in the Italian city of L'Aquila from July 8 to 10.
6: Holy Father receives the Letters of Credence of Carl-Henri Guiteau, the new envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary of Haiti to the Holy See.
7: Press conference in the Holy See Press Office to present Benedict XVI's new Encyclical "Caritas in veritate."
7: Holy Father receives in audience Taro Aso, prime minister of Japan.
8: Publication of Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio data" of Pope Benedict XVI, "Ecclesiae unitatem." The document concerns the structure of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" which deals with questions involving the Society of Saint Pius X and which now becomes dependent upon the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
9: Holy Father receives in audience Kevin Rudd, prime minister of Australia.
9: Holy Father receives in audience Lee Myung-bak, president of the Republic of Korea.
10: Benedict XVI receives in audience Barack H. Obama, president of the United States of America.
10: Holy Father receives the Letters of Credence of Hector Federico Ling Altamirano, the new ambassador of Mexico to the Holy See.
11: Benedict XVI receives Stephen Harper, prime minister of Canada.
13-29: Holy Father spends a holiday at the residence of Les Combes in Introd, in the Italian alpine region of Valle d'Aosta.
17: Holy Father undergoes a minor operation at the Umberto Parini hospital of Aosta to set a broken wrist, following a fall at his holiday villa in Les Combes.