On Thursday, March 23, 2023, at 10:30 a.m., Pope Francis received in audience the professors and students of the Pontifical Alphonsian Academy (Lateran University) who participated in the Congress on "
St. Alphonsus, Pastor of the last and Doctor of the Church", organized by that Pontifical Academy on March 21-22, 2023. A chronicle of the meeting with the Holy Father can be read
here.
At the end of the Holy Father's speech, Prof. Martin Carbajo-Núñez was able to give him
twelve of his latest books in Spanish, English, French, Italian, Portuguese and Polish.
The most recent one studies the Franciscan roots of the encyclical Fratelli tutti (
see).
On two previous occasions, Prof. Carbajo had already given him other books of his. Specifically, on 20.09.2013 he gave him his book on the
Franciscan economy (
see) and on 9.02.2019 he gave him
six other books on the encyclical
Laudato si' (
see).
Prof. Carbajo had also met several times with Pope John Paul II, who gave him a rosary on each of the occasions they met (2000 and 2003) (
+ info).
(Photo on left:
Vaticanews.va)
