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Farewell, Archbishop Niederauer: ‘We thank you, and we thank God for you’
Priests of the archdiocese assembled in the center pews and 20 bishops stood behind celebrant Cardinal William J. Levada on May 12 as a full church at St. Mary’s Cathedral participated in the funeral Mass for retired Archbishop George H. Niederauer. Archbishop Niederauer, eighth archbishop of San Francisco, died May 2 at age 80. More on Pages 14-15.
Tender gaze: Fatima trip shows pope’s respect for pilgrims’ faith Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis is not shy about showing his love for Mary in public and, like many Latin American bishops, he strongly has resisted attempts to dismiss as superstitious or “simple,” in a negative sense, popular devotion to the mother of God. The pope’s devotion and his respect for those who turn to Mary in their hour of need was on display May 12-13 when he and some 500,000 people gathered at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal. Canonizing two of the illiterate shepherd children to whom Mary appeared in 1917, Pope Francis made it clear he sees no need for people to be “sophisticated” in explaining their devotion. But he also made it clear that, as in any area of faith and spirituality, there is room in their under-
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Pope Francis places flowers near a statue of Mary as he prays in the Little Chapel of the Apparitions at the Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal, May 12.
standing of Mary for people to grow as Catholics and Christians. Calling himself a pilgrim with the pilgrims, Pope Francis asked “which Mary” did the crowds come to honor? The Mary who is “a teacher of the spiritual life, the first to follow Jesus on the ‘narrow way’ of the cross by giving us an example, or a lady ‘unapproachable’ and impossible to imitate?” For the pilgrims, he asked, is she “a woman ‘blessed because she believed’ always and everywhere in God’s words or a ‘plaster statue’ from whom we beg favors at little cost?” Pope Francis said many people would want to have a vision of Mary and to receive direct messages from her like Sts. Francisco and Jacinta Marto and their cousin, Sister Lucia dos Santos, did at Fatima in 1917. However, he said, “the Virgin Mother did not see fatima, page 22
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