Posted 12 June 2012
Pope’s representative, Cardinal Marc Ouellet visits UCD
Cardinal Marc Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops in Rome and Papal Legate at the 50th International Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, visited University College Dublin on 11 June 2012.
The Cardinal was accompanied by a group of Québécois pilgrims and others which included the Archbishop of Quebec, Gérald Lacroix, and Mgr Ciarán O’Carroll, Rector of the Irish College in Rome and former pastor of University Church, St Stephen’s Green.
Dr Pádraic Conway, Director of the UCD International Centre for Newman Studies and UCD Vice-President for University Relations, greeted Cardinal Ouellet on arrival and presented him with a copy of the UCD edition of Newman’s The Idea of a University as a souvenir of his visit.
Papal Legate, Cardinal Marc Ouellet and Dr Pádraic Conway, Director of the UCD International Centre for Newman Studies and UCD Vice-President for University Relations
After concelebrating Mass with, inter alia, UCD chaplains John McNerney, John Callinan S.J. and León Ó Giolláin S.J., the Cardinal departed for the RDS where most of the 50th International Eucharistic Congress is being conducted.
Dr Conway co-chaired with Trinity College Senior Lecturer, Dr Patrick Geoghegan, the session on Monday’s programme at the RDS entitled “Taking Shorthand in Latin at the Second Vatican Council”, a personal reflection on Vatican II on its 50th anniversary by Bishop Michael Smith of Meath.
The Papal Legate is in Dublin to represent the pope at the 2012 International Eucharistic Congress(Produced by UCD University Relations)
