CHICAGO (WBBM) -- Francis Cardinal George Sunday attended the canonization ceremony at which Indiana's Mother Theodore Guerin was proclaimed a saint.
WBBM's Bob Roberts reports George is preparing for a week of meetings with Vatican officials, and most likely an audience with Pope Benedict.
George is in Rome in his capacity as Vice President of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.
He said that during the canonization ceremony, he intended to remember his late secretary, who was a member of the Sisters of Providence, the Terre Haute-based religious order that Mother Guerin founded.
Beginning Monday, the Cardinal will participate in a week of meetings with various Vatican officials on a variety of topics
of important to U.S. bishops, among them the state of American Catholic seminaries.
He said he anticipates having an audience with Pope Benedict XVI while at the Vatican, but said he is not certain what topics will be discussed.
In all, he expects to take part in a couple of hours of meetings each day -- a schedule less strenuous than the one he has kept here in Chicago for the past couple of weeks.
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