(From our correspondents in Sydney) One of the 12 boys and girls who lunched with Pope Benedict XVI today was Craig Ashby, an Australian boy of aboriginal origin, who gave the Pontiff a kangaroo-skin cape. "Speaking of my people tells Ashby , which are still suffering from all the problems of discrimination and social exclusion that we have experienced, the Pope told me that the key to solve them is education". Craig adds that Benedict XVI "is a great leader" and hopes he will take the aboriginals’ question to heart. Another one of the boys and girls lunching with the Pope was Gabriel Nangile, from Papua New Guinea: "With the Pope we spoke of the young people of my country and the importance that our hearts move towards the Spirit". The boy says that for him this one "is an indescribable experience: never in my life would I have imagined that I would eat with the «leader» of the Catholic Church".
