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INDEX Archbishop's Column ......................2 Real Life Catholic .............................3 The Catholic Difference ..................4 Nun of the Above quiz ....................4 World/Nation.....................................6 World Youth Day series ..............8-9 Bulletin Board ..................................13 Service Directory ........................... 14 www.denverCatholicRegister.org I follow us on INSIDE ENCYCLICAL 113 Years of Service to the Gospel Faith is a light that guides, gives hope, pope says pAGE 3 HHS mANDATE Wave of mandate deadlines strike businesses pAGE 2 JulY 17, 2013 Denver's World Youth Day transformed local, universal Church, says cardinal American "Wild West" revived in Europe. And yet, against all odds, registrations of young "pilgrims" were exceeding all expectations. They were flowing in from everywhere. We searched very rapidly for a more expansive site (for the closing Mass) and eventually settled on the Cherry Creek State Park with the indispensable help of state and local officials. By ROXANNE kiNG photo by JeffRey bRuno volume lXXXIX - no. 24 The Denver Catholic Register recently interviewed Cardinal J. Francis Stafford of Rome, former archbishop of the Denver Archdiocese 1986-1996, about Denver's World Youth Day 1993, which he oversaw. Q: Take us back to 1993: what were event planners' expectations for Denver's World Youth Day and what actually occurred? Cardinal Stafford: In the beginning the expectations were low. The youth and young adult outreach of the Catholic Church since 1968 had spiraled downhill. Many were wringing their hands. The Woodstock generation and its sequel seemed tone-deaf to Jerusalem and Rome. Different generations lived apart, each constructing its own Tower of Babel. An abyss separated Woodstock and Cherry Creek Park. Intergenerational communication was atrophying. On the national scene in Washington, pessimism prevailed. It was predicted that the papal initiative would attract no more than 20,000 young people. Mile High Stadium would be more than adequate, they said, for the activities culminating with the vigil and papal Mass. The very identity of the event provoked controversy. Some reached back into the Catholic tradition and called it a pilgrimage. Others disagreed Q: Denver's WYD wasn't a traditional pilgrimage experience where one goes to a particular sacred site. What were pilgrims making pilgrimage to and where were they to encounter God? Cardinal Stafford: The young people of the world transformed the image of Denver. From a secularized city it was seen to embrace a Church of prayer and charity where God is loved above all things. Before 1993 Denver was a kind of spiritual "no-place"; after 1993 Cherry Creek State Park became a crucial place of conversion for the young, similar to the Patriarch Jacob's "Penuel" (experience of seeing the "Face of God") by the stream of Jabbok. Before Jacob's desdenveR CatholIC ReGIsteR fIle photo POPE John Paul II embraces then-Denver Archbishop J. Fran- perate struggle in the dark cis Stafford at a papal event at McNichols Sports Arena Aug. with a mysterious stranger, the place by the stream Jab14, 1993. bok was a no-place. After the and insisted that the term was Rome, reports were circulating indeterminate outcome of the anachronistic. Catholic young in the papal apartment about nocturnal wrestling bout left people had moved beyond the sharp increase in Denver see WYD, page 8 pilgrimages. Meanwhile, in murders in 1993. Visions of an pARISH NEWS YEAR OF FAITH: EpISCOpAL, EpISCOpATE photo pRovIded Through the eyes of an altar boy: Holy Ghost Church marks 70 years pAGE 11 The words "episcopal" and "episcopate" are used in reference to things that pertain to the office of the bishop. The Greek word for bishop is episkopos, which means "overseer," and refers to the bishop's task to govern and shepherd the particular Church that has been given to him. The bishop is the one who has received the fullness of the Sacrament of holy orders, which makes him a member of the episcopal college and a successor of the Apostles. July 18 is the first anniversary of the installation of Archbishop Samuel Aquila as archbishop of Denver. – Denver Catholic Biblical and Catechetical schools

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