The official Catholic directory for the year of Our Lord

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FOREWORD
It is with great pleasure and pride that we present the 2005 Edition of The Official Catholic
Directory. This special Papal Succession Edition, features a tribute to John Paul II and a heartfelt
welcome to Benedict XVI. This edition also honors the American Cardinals, including both those
serving in the United States and in Rome.
In his 26 years as Pope, John Paul II had too many accomplishments to adequately chronicle here.
Suffice it to say, he had an enormous impact not only on the Catholic Church, but on the entire
world. As you will see in our special tribute, John Paul II was an inspiration to everyone from
presidents and prime ministers to the faithful who came to love him from the earliest days of his
papacy.
With this volume, we also welcome the new Holy Father, Benedict XVI. As priest, archbishop and
cardinal, Benedict XVI has already made enormous contributions to both the Church and the world.
Now that he has been elected to the position of Pope we believe that his influence, guidance and
leadership will only bring the faithful closer to the word of God.
It also gives us great pleasure to honor the American Cardinals. Over the years, we have had a
chance to get to know and admire them all. During a time of great political and social upheaval, with
religious and moral issues debated at home and conflicts overseas, the American Cardinals have
been a true source of comfort, wisdom and inspiration.
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His Holiness the Pope John Paul II
Pope John Paul II
Mourning and Remembrance
by George Weigel
BH. once described his high-
The pope believed that "history" ts Hts-story —
school years as a time in which he
was "completely absorbed" by a the story of Gods quest for man.
passion for the theater. So it was
fitting that Karol Jozef Wojtyla
lived a very dramatic life. As a
young man, he risked summary
execution by leading clandestine
acts of cultural resistance to the
Nazi occupation of Poland. As a
fledgling priest, he adopted a
Stalin-era nom de guerre-Wujek,
"uncle'—while creating zones of
intellectual and spiritual freedom
for college students; those students,
now older men and women them- mind: the young Pope bouncing have lost a friend. Those who
selves, called him Wujek to the infants in the air and the old Pope knew him more intimately
end. As archbishop of Krakow, he bowed in remembrance over the experience a profound sense of
successfully fought the attempt by memorial flame at Yad Vashem, personal loss at the death of a
Poland's communist overseers to Jerusalem's Holocaust memorial; man who was so wonderfully,
erase the nation's cultural memory. the Pope wearing a Kenyan tribal thoroughly, engagingly human—
As Pope John Paul IJ, he came chieftain's feathered crown, the a man of intelligence and wit and
back to Poland in June 1979; and Pope waving his papal cross in courage whose humanity breathed
over nine days during which the defiance of Sandinista demonstra- integrity and sanctity.
history of the 20th century pivoted, tors in Managua, the Pope skiing,
he ignited a revolution of con- the Pope lost in prayer in countless So there are many ways of
science that helped make possible venues; the Pope kneeling at the remembering and mourning him.
the collapse of European commu- grave of murdered Solidarity chap- Pope John Paul II should also be
nism a decade later. lain Jerzy Popieluszko, the Pope remembered, however, as a man
slumped in pain in the Popemobile, with a penetrating insight into the
The world will remember the seconds after taking two shots from currents that flow beneath the
drama of this life in the days ahead, a 9mm semi-automatic—and the surface of history, currents that in
even as it measures John Paul II's Pope counseling and encouraging fact create history, often in
many other accomplishments: his the would-be assassin in his Roman surprising ways.
transformation of the papacy from prison cell.
a managerial office to one of evan- In a 1968 letter to the French
gelical witness; his voluminous Some will dismiss him as hopeless- Jesuit theologian, Henri de Lubac,
teaching, touching virtually every ly "conservative" in matters of doc- then-Cardinal Karol Wojtyla sug-
aspect of contemporary life; his trine and morals, although it is not gested that "a degradation, indeed a
dogged pursuit of Christian unity; clear how religious and moral truth pulverization, of the fundamental
his success in blocking the Clinton can be parsed in liberal/conserva- uniqueness of each human person"
administration's efforts to have tive terms. The shadows cast upon was at the root of the 20th centu-
abortion-on-demand declared a his papacy by clerical scandal and ry's grim record: two World Wars,
basic human right; his remarkable the misgovernance of some bishops Auschwitz and the Gulag, a Cold
magnetism for young people; his will focus others' attention. John War threatening global disaster,
groundbreaking initiatives with Paul II was the most visible human oceans of blood and mountains of
Judaism; his robust defense of being in history, having been seen corpses. How had a century begun
religious freedom as the first of live by more men and women than with such high hopes for the
human rights. any other man who ever lived; the human future produced mankind's
remarkable thing is that millions of greatest catastrophes? Because,
And, in the remembering, certain those people, who saw him only at Karol Wojtyla proposed, Western
unforgettable images will come to a great distance, will think they humanism had gone off the rails,
collapsing into forms of self- Solidarity. And then the entire moral culture is essential for
absorption, and then self-doubt, so world began to see the communist democracy and the market, for
severe that men and women had tide recede, like the slow retreat of only such a culture can inculcate
begun to wonder whether there a plague. and affirm the virtues necessary to
was any truth at all to be found in make freedom work. Democracy
the world, or in themselves. After the Cold War, when more and the free economy, he taught in
than a few analysts and politicians his 1991 encyclical Centesimus
This profound crisis of culture, this were in a state of barely restrained Annus, are goods; but they are not
crisis in the very idea of the human, euphoria, imagining a golden age of machines that can cheerfully run
had manifested itself in the serial inevitable progress for the cause of by themselves. Building the free
crises that had marched across the political and economic freedom, society certainly involves getting
surface of contemporary history, John Paul II saw more deeply and the institutions right; beyond that,
leaving carnage in their wake. But clearly. He quickly decoded new however, freedom's future depends
unlike some truly "conservative" threats to what he had called, in on men and women of virtue,
critics of late modernity, Wojtyla's that 1968 letter to Father de capable of knowing, and choosing,
counter-proposal was not rollback: Lubac, the "inviolable mystery of the genuinely good.
rather, it was a truer, nobler the human person," and so he spent
humanism, built on the foundation much of the 1990s explaining that That is why John Paul relentlessly
of the biblical conviction that God freedom untethered from moral preached genuine tolerance: not
had made the human creature in truth risks self-destruction. the tolerance of indifference, as if
His image and likeness, with differences over the good didn't
intelligence and free will, a creature For if there is only your truth and matter, but the real tolerance of
capable of knowing the good and my truth and neither one of us differences engaged, explored,
freely choosing it. That, John Paul recognizes a transcendent moral and debated within the bond of a
II insisted in a vast number of standard (call it "the truth") by profound respect for the humanity
variations on one great theme, of the other. Many were puzzled
which to settle our differences,
was the true measure of man-the then either you will impose your that this Pope, so vigorous in
human capacity, in cooperation power on me or | will impose my defending the truths of Catholic
with God's grace, for heroic virtue. power on you; Nietszche, great, faith, could become, over a
mad prophet of the 20th century, quarter-century, the world's
Here was an idea with conse- got at least that right. Freedom premier icon of religious freedom
quences, and the Pope applied it uncoupled from truth, John Paul and inter-religious civility. But
to effect across a broad spectrum taught, leads to chaos and thence to here, too, John Paul II was
of issues. new forms of tyranny. For, in the teaching a crucial lesson about the
face of chaos (or fear), raw power future of freedom: Universal
One variant form of debased will inexorably replace persuasion, empathy comes through, not
humanism was the notion that "his- compromise, and agreement as the around, particular convictions.
tory" is driven by the politics of coin of the political realm. The false There is no Rawlsian veil of
willfulness (the Jacobin heresy) or humanism of freedom misconstrued ignorance behind which the world
by economics (the Marxist heresy). as "I did it my way" inevitably leads can withdraw, to subsequently
During his epic pilgrimage to to freedom's decay, and then to emerge with decency in its pocket.
Poland in June 1979, at a moment freedom's self-cannibalization. This
when "history" seemed frozen and was not the soured warning of an There is only history. But that
Europe permanently divided into antimodern scold; this was the sage history, the Pope believed, is the
hostile camps, John Paul II counsel of a man who had given his story of God's quest for man, and
demonstrated that "history" worked life to freedom's cause from man then taking the same path as
differently, because human beings 1939 on. God. "History" is His-story.
aren't just the by-products of Believing that, Karol Jézef
politics or economics. He gave Thus the key to the freedom Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II,
back to his people their authentic project in the 21st century, John changed history. The power of his
history and culture-their identity; Paul urged, lay in the realm of belief empowered millions of others
and in doing so, he gave them tools culture: in vibrant public moral to do the same.
of resistance that communist trun- cultures capable of disciplining
cheons could not reach. Fourteen and directing the tremendous Reprinted from the Wall Street Journal
© 2005 Dow Jones & Company.
months after teaching that great energies—economic, political,
All rights reserved.
lesson in dignity, the Pope watched aesthetic, and, yes, sexual—set loose
and guided the emergence of in free societies. A vibrant public
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The World Mourns
World leaders react to the passing of Pope John Paul IT
“Ttalians, I cry with you for the Holy Father, the pope who was for us such a close neighbor. We have loved him, we have
admired him for the strength of his toeads, for his courage, the Padsdlon, the capacity to expredd valued, hope to all of ws,
espectally our youth, youth from all over the world. We have admired his extraordinary openness to the inter-religtous
dtalogue. Italy ts in mourning.”
— Italian President Carlo Ciampi
“The Catholic Church has lost tts shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom, and a good and faithful
servant of God has been called home.”
— President George W. Bush
‘T think we shall keep dtscovering how much the Holy Father worked for us and strugglefdo r us. He spoke to us through
his illness, and through his suffering, served to the very end... [Without him] there would be no end of communism, or at
least [it would have come] much later, and the end would have been bloody. 4
— Lech Walesa, former president of Poland and leader of the Solidarity labor movement
“Ae the largest Catholic country tn the world, where people of several different beliefs live in harmony, Brazil feels sorrowful
for the loss of one of the men who posttively marked the course of contemporary history.”
— Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
“The story of Pope John Paul IT ts that of am an of immense fatth and conviction and, tn latter years, great personal
courage. He engaged with human culture and civilization tn every aspect and in every corner of the world.”
— Irish President Mary McAleese
“Our people receive the news of his death with a deep sense ofg rief and loss. He was a holy champion of the Filipino family
and of profound Christian values that make every one of us contemplate every day what ts just, moral and sacred in life.”
— Philippine President Gloria Arroyo
“The reason why there's been such an outpouring of feeling over the past few days ts because of the nature of the man
himself, ano even ify ou're not a Catholic or you're not a Christian — in fact even ify ou have no religious faith at all -
what people could see in Pope John Paul was a man of true and profound spiritual faith, a shining example of what that
faith should mean. And for anyone who ever met him — as I was fortunate enough to — you could see that very clearly. But
actually even people who never met him, never came near him, could see that from afar. The world has lost a religtouds
leader who was revered across people ofa ll faiths and none. He was an inspiration, a man of extraordinary faith,
dignity and courage.”
— British Prime Minister Tony Blair