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Gulf Pine Catholic • October 18, 2019 4 THANKSGIVING NOVENA TO ST. JUDE O Holy St. Jude, Apostle and Martyr, great in virtue and rich in miracles, near kinsman of Jesus Christ, faithful intercessor of all who invoke your special patronage in time of need, to you I have recourse from the depth of my heart and humbly beg to whom God has given such great power to come to my assistance. Help me in my present and urgent petition. In return I promise to make your name known and cause you to be invoked. St. Jude pray for us and all who invoke your aid. Amen. Say three Our Fathers, Hail Marys and Glorias. Publication must be promised. This Novena has never been known to fail. I have had my request granted. Publication promised. RFG Pope Consistory Cardinals From page 3 Cardinal Sarah: To oppose the pope is to be outside the church BY CINDY WOODEN Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Guinean Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, said the people who portray him as an opponent of Pope Francis are being used by the devil to help divide the church. “The truth is that the church is represented on earth by the vicar of Christ, that is by the pope. And whoever is against the pope is, ipso facto, outside the church,” the cardinal said in an interview published Oct. 7 in Corriere della Sera , an Italian daily. The 74-year-old cardinal, who Pope Francis appointed in 2014 as head of the office oversee- ing liturgical matters, often is portrayed as a critic of Pope Francis, especially because of the cardinal’s cautious attitude toward welcoming Muslim migrants to Europe, his concern about the church acting more like a social-service agency than a missionary church and his tradi- tional approach to the liturgy. The Corriere piece was published to coin- cide with the release of a new book-length inter- view with Cardinal Sarah, “The Day is Now Far Spent.” The English edition was released Sept. 22 by Ignatius Press in the United States. The cardinal’s book dedication reads: “For Benedict XVI, peerless architect of the rebuilding of the church. For Francis, faithful and devoted son of St. Ignatius. For the priests throughout the world in thanksgiving on the occasion of my golden jubilee of priesthood,” which was July 20. In the Corriere interview, the cardinal was asked what the “truth” was about his relationship with Pope Francis. “The truth is that many people write not to give wit- ness to the truth, but to place people against one anoth- er, to damage human relationships,” he said. “The truth doesn’t matter to them.” “Those who place me in opposition to the Holy Father cannot present a single word of mine, a single phrase or a single attitude of mine to support their absurd -- and I would say, diabolical -- affirmations,” Cardinal Sarah said. “The devil divides, sets people against each other.” Cardinal Sarah said it is normal for the church to experience difficulties and divisions, but every Christian is called “to seek unity in Christ.” “I would add that every pope is right for his time,” the cardinal said. “Providence looks after us very well, you know.” However, Cardinal Sarah’s new book is filled with warnings about how a lack of faith, trust in God and adherence to tradition is threat- ening the Catholic Church, particularly in Europe and the wealthy West. But he especially focuses on clerical sexual abuse and how that has meant “the mystery of betrayal oozes from the walls of the church.” Still, in the chapter, “The Crisis of the Church,” the book includes the cardinal saying, “I would like to remind everyone about Jesus’ words to St. Peter, ‘You are Peter and on this rock I will build my church’ (Mt 16:18). We have the assurance that this saying of Jesus is realized in what we call the infallibility of the church. The spouse of Christ, headed by the successor of Peter, can live through crises and storms.” Noting that some Catholics “are quick to hurl anathemas at those who do not follow their line of thought,” the cardinal said that it is time “to rediscover a bit of peace and benevolence. Only faith, confidence in the magisterium and its continuity down through the centuries can give us unity.” Catholics today must ask themselves if they truly believe the faith the church always has taught, the faith of their ancestors, is still valid today, Cardinal Sarah told Corriere. “We are called to rediscover the truth of these (teachings) both with the incomparable analysis of Benedict’s thought and with great and sunny indus- triousness of Francis.” Although the two popes have obvious differences, Cardinal Sarah said, “there is a great harmony and great continuity between them as everyone has been able to see these last few years.” “The history of the church is beautiful,” he said, and reducing it to a political battle “typical of a television talk show is a marketing ploy, not a search for truth.” Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, talks with Cardinal Christoph Schonborn of Vienna after a session of the Synod of Bishops for the Amazon at the Vatican Oct. 9, 2019. In an Oct. 7 interview with an Italian daily newspaper, Cardinal Sarah said that whoever is against the pope is outside the church. CNS photo/Paul Haring In addition to the 67-year-old Cardinal Ayuso, a Spanish member of the Comboni Missionaries, the 12 other prelates who received their red hats from the pope were Cardinals: > Jose Tolentino Calaca de Mendonca, Vatican archivist and librarian, Portuguese, 53. > Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo, archbishop of Jakarta, Indonesia, 69. > Juan Garcia Rodriguez, archbishop of Havana, 71. > Fridolin Ambongo Besungu, archbishop of Kinshasa, Congo, and member of the Capuchins, 59. > Jean-Claude Hollerich, archbishop of Luxem- bourg, Jesuit, 61. > Alvaro Ramazzini Imeri, bishop of Huehuetenango, Guatemala, 72. > Matteo Zuppi, archbishop of Bologna, Italy, 63. > Cristobal Lopez Romero, archbishop of Rabat, Morocco, Spanish member of the Salesians, 67. > Michael Czerny, undersecretary of the Section for Migrants and Refugees at the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. Canadian Jesuit, 73. > Michael Fitzgerald, an English Missionary of Africa, who had served as president of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue and later as Vatican nuncio to Egypt, 82. > Sigitas Tamkevicius, retired archbishop of Kau- nas, Lithuania, Jesuit, 80. > Eugenio dal Corso, retired bishop of Benguela, Angola, an Italian member of the congregation of the Poor Servants of Divine Providence, 80.