No Holy Thursday Letter to Priests from the Pope This Year

Vatican, Apr. 11 (CWNews.com) - Pope Benedict XVI (bio - news) will not release a letter to the world's priests on Holy Thursday this year.

The Holy Father thus breaks with a pattern set by Pope John Paul II (bio - news), who issued his first Holy Thursday letter to priests on 1979, then provided a new message each year from 1982 to 2005.

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