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Challenging University of San Francisco graduating students to resist the temptation to think they hold “firstclass tickets in life” and can “sit or stand around while others fix things,” San Francisco’s Archbishop George H. Niederauer delivered the keynote address at USF’s 148th commencement today at St. Ignatius Church. During the morning ceremony at which undergraduate degrees were conferred in humanities and the sciences, Archbishop Niederauer was presented an honorary degree of humane letters by the University. In making the presentation, USF president Jesuit Father Stephen Privett said Archbishop Niederauer is “a man who represents an unbroken bond of faith and support between USF and the Archdiocese of San Francisco.” “One hundred and fifty-two years ago, the first Archbishop of San Francisco, the Most Rev. Joseph Alemany, honored the newly arrived Jesuits in San Francisco by dedicating St. Ignatius Church and St. Ignatius Academy, the Jesuits’ first church and school in our city,” the USF leader explained. “Today, we honor the eighth Archbishop of San Francisco, the Most Rev. George H. Niederauer, in the fifth St. Ignatius Church of San Francisco, on the campus of the academy that became the University of San Francisco.” Father Privett said Archbishop Niederauer “in word and deed reflects USF’s commitment to ‘fashion a more humane and just world,’” and that he “personifies the Catholic tradition— demonstrated through his extraordinary sense of social justice, passionate concern for peace, and his commitment to nonviolence to achieve ethical goals. As Archbishop of San Francisco, Archbishop Niederauer has continued his moral leadership and willingness to work across denominational boundaries.” Using stagecoach transportation as a metaphor, the Archbishop told those present the early-West passenger GRADUATES, page 18
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Graduates challenged to ‘get out, get down, and help solve’ issues
Pope Benedict XVI embraces a group of children during his visit to Fazenda da Esperanca (Farm of Hope) drug rehabilitation center in Guaratingueta, Brazil, May 12. The Franciscan-founded facility treats mostly those who have failed to kick their addiction in other programs.
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Latin America, Caribbean
Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun of Hong Kong made a May 11-14 stop in San Francisco en route to visit Chinese Catholic communities in several U.S. and Canadian cities. While here he visited Church leaders as well as celebrating the 10:15 a.m. Mass at Sts. Peter and Paul Parish, pictured above greeting parishioners. The parish held a banquet in his honor. (More coverage next week.)
Bishops tackle agenda outlined by pope By Barbara J. Fraser APARECIDA, Brazil (CNS) — With their agenda broadly outlined by Pope Benedict XVI, the bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean began the conference that will lead to pastoral guidelines for the region for the next 10-15 years. Several bishops who spoke with journalists said the pope raised many of the issues likely to be addressed during the conference, including deeper formation in the faith and Church social doctrine, poverty, ministry among indigenous peoples and family life. Archbishop Pedro Barreto Jimeno of Huancayo, Peru, called the pope’s May 13 speech to the bishops “inspiring” and “encouraging.” Archbishop Baltazar Porras Cardozo of Merida, Venezuela, told journalists
the pope did not “put us in a straitjacket” but “came to present a challenge.” The pope’s address officially opened the Fifth General Conference of the Bishops of Latin America and the Caribbean, which runs through May 31. On May 14, after Mass in the Basilica of the National Shrine of Our Lady Aparecida, the 266 bishops and observers attending the meeting spent the morning in retreat. The afternoon session included speeches by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Re, president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America, and Archbishop Geraldo Lyrio Rocha of Mariana, president of the Brazilian bishops’ conference. Many of the points raised by the pope have to do with values that “go beyond the bounds of the Church LATIN AMERICA, page 18
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