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Hey everybody,
Today’s the feast of St. Katherine Drexel, the second Tuesday of Lent, and a good day — like so many right now — to pray for just, true, and lasting peace in our world.
When he was elected, Pope Leo greeted the world with “the peace of the risen Christ.”
That is, he said, “a peace that is unarmed and disarming, humble and persevering. A peace that comes from God, the God who loves us all, unconditionally.”
Let’s pray for that peace, through the name, and mercy, and victory of the risen Jesus Christ.
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And before we get to the news, let’s talk for a minute about the Cardinal of Penzance.
Fifty years ago this week, a 44-year-old James Francis Stafford was consecrated a bishop at the primatial American cathedral in Baltimore, setting off a remarkable episcopal career, which tracks alongside the entire trajectory of American Catholicism.
Stafford was then running Baltimore’s Catholic Charities; he had a reputation as both a competent administrator and a consummate pastor, with a special interest in supporting family life.
He was eventually Bishop of Memphis, and then in 1986 the Archbishop of Denver.
He is most famous there for bringing World Youth Day to Denver, and with it, the launching of
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