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JULY 28, 2011 Volume LXXXV • Number 36 www.evangelist.org
PSALTY SUMMER DAYS
Around the Diocese
St. Vincent’s parish in Albany prepares for its annual musical: Page 16
Athens and Catskill parishes team up, Albany offers a basketball camp and Saratoga keeps kids busy: Pages 3, 9, 16
T H E O F F I C I A L P U B L I C AT I O N O F T H E D I O C E S E O F A L B A N Y WORLD YOUTH DAY
Shhhhh: WYD PINING makes space FOR FUN for silence BY CINDY WOODEN
C AT H O L I C N E WS S E RV I C E
Vatican City — Pope Benedict XVI has put his own stamp on the Church’s celebration of World Youth Day, and it’s especially clear in the gathering’s moments of prayer. In Cologne, Germany, six years ago — Pope Benedict’s first WYD as pope — he surprised the youths at the Saturday night vigil by urging them to quiet down. The Cologne event was where he started a major new WYD tradition: Instead of ending the vigil with a boisterous musical finale, he ended it with eucharistic adoration — with tens of thousands of young people kneeling silently in a field. The scene was repeated in Australia in 2008. During World Youth Day 2011, scheduled for Aug. 16-21 in Madrid, eucharistic adoration again will cap the pope’s participation at the vigil. Adoration and prayer also will continue throughout the night on the edges of the military airport where many of the young people are expected to camp overnight. In fact, organizers are planning to have 17 tents set up as chapels for all-night adoration. The visual focal point when the pope leads the adoration and Benediction will be a monstrance set into a towering 16thcentury gothic structure of silver and gold usually housed in the Toledo cathedral. SHHHHH: WYD MAKES SPACE FOR SILENCE, SEE PAGE 6
NORWAY
Pope decries terror attacks
COOPER PELLETT EXAMINES a pine cone during a forest walk by kids in the summer enrichment program sponsored by St. Clement’s School in Saratoga Springs. For more photos, see the back page. (Nate Whitchurch photo)
BY CAROL GLATZ
C AT H O L I C N E WS S E RV I C E
ed Jewish passengers to read Hebrew passages. They got in trouble for lighting candles on the Sabbath. Over the years, Father Gaffigan has learned to let rabbis or Jewish laypeople step in to lead the Jewish parts of the service, but he likes to deliver ecumenical homilies.
Vatican City — In the wake of two terror attacks in Norway that left at least 93 people dead, Pope Benedict XVI called for an end to hatred and ideologies that promote evil. “We are all deeply saddened by the serious terrorist acts,” the pope said after praying the Angelus with pilgrims at the papal summer residence in Castel Gandolfo July 24. The pope launched an appeal “to abandon once and for all the path of violence and avoid principles of evil.” As a further expression of his condolences and prayers for those affected by the attacks, the pope sent a message to Norway’s King Harald V. Written on behalf of the pope by Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, Vatican secretary of state, the pope said he was praying for all those affected by “the acts of senseless violence perpetrated in Oslo and Utoya.” The pope asked that the country “be spiritually united in a determined resolve to reject the ways of hatred and conflict and to work together fearlessly in shaping a future of mutual respect, solidarity and freedom for coming generations.” Explosives ripped through Norwegian government headquarters in Oslo July 22, leaving seven people dead and dozens
PRIEST VACATIONS AS CRUISE SHIP CHAPLAIN, SEE PAGE 5
POPE DECRIES TERROR ATTACKS, SEE PAGE 7
WORLD TRAVELER
Priest vacations as cruise ship chaplain BY ANGELA CAVE
STA F F W R I T E R
Hearing poolside confessions and praying for a tour bus passenger to find her passport are a matter of course for Rev. Charles Gaffigan. A priest of the Albany Diocese for almost half a century, Father Gaffigan has spent his spare time traveling as a cruise ship chaplain for 42 years. Aboard the vessels, he cele-
brates daily and Sunday Masses, as well as Protestant services and a Saturday ecumenical service. He also volunteers to keep track of travelers on land tours. At 76, he says he’ll continue cruising “as long as I have my health.” Father Gaffigan still recalls his first cruise ship service, when he and his brother, also a priest, donned yarmulkes and recruit-