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...Priest Shortage: The issue will be central at his prayer service and meeting with bishops at 5:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate conception in Washington and at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers, N.Y. at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday. Benedict will also bring up his hopes for greater activism by regular laypeople...
...April 16th, so one might expect best wishes from George W. Bush at the White House welcoming ceremony on Wednesday. But if you want to hear seminarians sing "Happy Birthday to You," wait until his visit to St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers at 4:30 p.m. on Saturday...
...abuse to reporters on his flight to the states. He may also discuss it on his Wednesday 5:30 p.m. Washington meeting with all the U.S. bishops, and certainly during the homily of his Mass for priests at New York's St. Patrick's Cathedral at 9:15 a.m. Saturday. The outstanding questions are whether the Pope will talk to victims and whether he will assign any blame to the supervisors and bishops who ignored or covered up for priests they knew were abusive and enabled them to become multiple offenders...
...some point in the next 40 years the majority of his flock in the U.S. is projected to be Hispanic, Benedict threw a few sentences in Spanish into his videotaped message prior to the trip. At his Mass for priests at St. Patrick's at 9:15 a.m. on Saturday, the first reading, from the Acts of the Apostles, will be read in Spanish...
...Church and Young People The one encounter we know that the Pope specifically requested was his meeting with 25,000 young Catholics and 5,000 seminarians starting at 4:30 p.m. Saturday at St. Joseph's Seminary in Yonkers. One of the Church's responses to the priest shortage is expected to be more active recruitment of the young, and Benedict will probably start here, especially given the venue...