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Visit www.thecatholicsun.com to read and explore the Sun’s digital edition! March 20, 2014 | The offi cial newspaper of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse, N.Y. | www.thecatholicsun.com Pope Francis A look back at his first year • A year of reform and evangelization: page 7 • Lessons in style: page 8 • Pope’s refrain: ‘Go forth,’ evangelize, help the poor: page 9 • “Francis effect” not measurable yet in church attendance: page 10 • Local Catholics refl ect on pope’s infl uence: pages 11-12 • Trinity Catholic School students share what they think makes the pope special: page 12 CNS PHOTO | PAUL HARING “My Place in the Sun” Rite of Election and Call Father Augustine Discussing drones 3 Bishop Cunningham writes about 41520to Continuing Conversion Kapinus, OFM Conv., Notre Dame law professor to Saint Joseph remembered speak at Le Moyne College 2 | OUT & ABOUT The Catholic Sun | March 20, 2014 Catholic Press Association, Inc. 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Address: ______________________________ City: ________________State:_____ Zip:____ Signature:________________________ Telephone: ____________________________ Day Evening Email address: _______________ My Roommate: ________________________ March 20, 2014 | www.thecatholicsun.com BISHOP CUNNINGHAM | 3 Saint Joseph ere we are on the threshold of angel announcing what he should do real sensitivity for God and His ways, spring! The weather outside, and where he should go; on his death can receive God’s message as Joseph Hhowever, does not look much bed with Mary and Jesus close at his did. He is deserving of the Gospel like spring. We are in the midst of side; and of course those that place him blessing bestowed on those “who hear what is being called “the storm of the in the stable at the birth of Jesus or on the word of God and act upon it” (Lk season.” Schools are closed all around the road to Egypt leading his family 11:28). May St. Joseph help us to listen us and we are told that travel conditions to safety and later returning to their to God’s word and act upon it. My Place in the Sun | will be hazardous as the day continues. homeland. There are no recorded words I often refl ect on Mary’s “fi at,” her Whatever the weather and my eagerness of Joseph in Scripture. The words “yes” to what God was asking of Bishop Robert J. Cunningham for the end of winter and the beginning about him in the Gospel, however, and her: “May it be done to me according of spring, I realized I needed to spend Christian art attest to his important role to your word” (Lk 1:38). Joseph some time on my article for the in God’s plan. also responded positively to God’s Catholic Sun. I think of St. Joseph as a quiet man invitation. He lived his “yes” to God’s In 2013 Pope Francis confi rmed the I decided to write about St. Joseph. who nonetheless offers us profound plan for him when he took Mary into decision originally made by Benedict Christian art pictures this venerable insights and striking examples of his home, accepted her mysterious XVI to insert Joseph’s name into man in a variety of ways. Among my Christian discipleship. In his book on pregnancy as God’s will, embraced Eucharistic Prayers II, III and IV. favorite pictures of St. Joseph are those the Infancy Narratives, Pope Benedict her Son and raised Him as their son, In recent years, Sister Madeleva, an which depict him as a young man with offers a number of descriptions of a migrated to a foreign land to protect his artist and a Sister of St. Joseph, has his family, Mary and Jesus; as a loving “just” man. He is one who sinks his family and uprooted them a second time contributed to St. Joseph’s legacy. I father holding the infant Jesus in his roots into the word of God, maintains to return to their homeland.