9/11 OBSERVANCES AT ROME'S AIRPORT, AMERICAN PARISH

ROME, Sep 11, 02 (CWNews.com) -- All of the personnel working at Rome's Fiumicino airport-- pilots, airline employees, and service crews-- were represented in the congregation as Archbishop Stephen Fumio Hamao presided at Mass in the airport chapel, commemorating the lives lost on last September 11.

"My presence here today is a sign of the solidarity of the Holy See with all those who have suffered, and still suffer, from the consequences of that terrible day," said the Japanese-born prelate. Archbishop Hamao is the president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants, which organized the special liturgical ceremony.

In the evening of September 11, an American-born Vatican official-- Archbishop John Foley, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications-- was scheduled to preside at a memorial Mass for the September 11 victims. A large crowd of Rome's American residents was expected to participate in the Mass, at St. Susanna's church, which serves the American community.

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