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PAGE 2 THE CATHOLIC WEEK MARCH 16, 2018 WJTC-Mobile/Pensacola/Ft. Walton/Wiregrass PROGRAMSCHEDULE www.catholicinamerica.com Check local listings for 11 am Sundays March 18 ............................................................................... Angels / Mary March 25 .................................World’s Biggest Bible Study / Suffering The Catholic Week MARCH 16, 2018 Volume 84, Number 06 Official Publication of the Archdiocese of Mobile Published since 1934 The Catholic Week (USPS 094-660) is published bi-weekly by the Archdiocese of Mobile 356 Government Street Mobile, AL 36602 Periodical Postage Paid at Mobile, Alabama —POSTMASTER— Send address changes to: The Catholic Week, PO Box 349, Mobile, AL 36601 Mobile P.S. Form 3541-N —PUBLISHER— Archbishop Thomas J. Rodi —EDITOR— Robert W. Herbst 251-434-1544 rherbst@mobarch.org —PRODUCTION— Pamela C. 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O’Leary ............................................................1875 2 Most Reverend William B. Friend ...........................................2015 3 Reverend Patrick Turner ......................................................... 1927 4 Reverend Monsignor Alexander O’Neil ..................................1968 6 Reverend Eugene T. Gazzo ..................................................... 1925 7 Reverend Monsignor Philip A. Lambert ..................................1975 Deacon Patrick Kelly ...............................................................2007 12 Deacon Samuel Shippen ..........................................................2013 15 Reverend P. J. McCaffrey........................................................ 1901 17 Reverend Louis Michael Suffredini ........................................ 2005 18 Reverend F. C. Doyle .............................................................. 1938 21 Reverend David Toomey..........................................................1938 22 Reverend Abram J. Ryan..........................................................1886 25 Reverend Monsignor John P. Aherne .......................................2009 26 Deacon A. Gordon Kenny ........................................................2017 Archdiocesan Clergy Deceased in April VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope just a few days after telling the College of Car- dinals that the Catholic Church faced a clear choice between be- ing a church that “goes out” or a church focused on its internal affairs. After the cardinal from Bue- nos Aires,Argentina,was elected March 13, 2013, and chose the name Francis, he made “go out,” “periphery” and “throwaway cul- ture” standard phrases in the pa- pal vocabulary. Catholics have a wide vari- ety of opinions about how Pope Francis is exercising the papal ministry, and many of his com- ments — both in informal news conferences and in formal docu- ments — have stirred controver- sy. But, as he wrote in “Evangelii Gaudium,” the apostolic exhor- tation laying out the vision for his pontificate: “I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security.” But there are two areas of internal church affairs that he recognized needed immediate attention: the reform of the Ro- man Curia and the full protec- tion of children and vulnerable adults from clerical sexual abuse. The organizational reform of the Curia has been taking place in stages, but Pope Francis has insisted that the real reform is a matter of changing hearts and embracing service. On the issue of abuse, nine months into his pontificate,Pope Francis established the Pontifical Commission for Child Protec- tion to advise him on better ways to prevent clerical sexual abuse and to ensure pastoral care for the survivors. While Pope Francis has em- phatically proclaimed “zero tol- erance” for abusers and recently said covering up abuse “is itself an abuse,” as his fifth anniversary approached serious questions arose about how he handled ac- cusations that Chilean Bishop Juan Barros, who was a priest at the time, covered up allegations of abuse against his mentor. The new scandal threatened to undermine the widespread popularity of Pope Francis and his efforts to set the Catholic Church on a new course. For Pope Francis, that new course involves evangelization first of all. “Evangelizing presupposes a desire in the church to come out of herself,”he had told the cardi- nals just days before the conclave that elected him. “The church is called to come out of herself and to go to the peripheries, not only geographically, but also the existential peripheries: the mys- tery of sin, of pain, of injustice, of ignorance and indifference to religion, of intellectual currents and of all misery.” Mercy is the first thing the Catholic Church is called to bring to those peripheries, he says. Although in 2013 he told re- porters he would not be travel- ing as much as his predecessors, Pope Francis has continued their practice of literally “going out,” making 22 trips outside of Italy and visiting 32 nations. But he also regularly visits the peripheries of Rome, both its poor suburbs and its hospi- tals, rehabilitation centers, pris- ons and facilities for migrants and refugees. In September 2015 as waves of migrants and refugees were struggling and dying to reach Europe, Pope Francis asked ev- ery parish and religious commu- nity in Europe to consider of- fering hospitality to one family. The Vatican offered apartments and support to a family from Syria and a family from Eritrea. Then, seven months later, Pope Francis visited a refugee center on the island of Lesbos, Greece, and brought 12 refugees back to Rome on the plane with him. Less than three months into his pontificate, he began de- nouncing the “throwaway cul- ture” as one where money and power were the ultimate values and anything or anyone that did not advance money or power were disposable: “Human life, the person are no longer seen as primary values to be respected and protected, especially if they are poor or disabled, if they are not yet useful — like an unborn child — or are no longer useful — like an old person,” the pope said at a general audience. Like all popes, Pope Francis frequently urges Catholics to go to confession, telling them it is not a “torture chamber.” And he repeatedly gives priests blunt ad- vice about being welcoming and merciful to those who approach the confessional. From the beginning of his pa- pacy, Pope Francis has expressed love and admiration for retired Pope Benedict XVI. Returning from South Korea in 2014, he said Pope Benedict’s honest, “yet also humble and courageous” gesture of resigning cleared a path for later popes to do the same. FIVE YEARS A POPE Francis’ focus has been on outreach Paul Haring/CNS Pope Francis appears for the first time on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican on March 13, 2013.