CURRENT ISSUE:  April 25, 2005VOL. 43, NO. 8Oakland, CA

Church welcomes Pope Benedict XVI
Calling newly elected Pope Benedict XVI a “man of profound intellectual talent and deep pastoral charity,” Bishop Allen Vigneron encouraged Catholics in the Oakland Diocese to thank God for giving the Church “a good shepherd.”>>>

The new pope is remembered as
warm, gracious, a good listener
Notre Dame Sister Pat McGlinn and journalist Dan Morris-Young met Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger in 1999 at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park when he came to the Bay Area for a bishops’ conference. Father Gerald Brown, as Sulpician provincial, consulted with him in Rome several times during the 1990’s.>>>

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