JULY 28, 2011Volume LXXXV • Number 36

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PSALTY SUMMER DAYS

T H E O F F I C I A L P U B L I C A T I O N O F T H E D I O C E S E O F A L B A N Y

St. Vincent’s parish in Albany prepares for itsannual musical: Page 16

Around the DioceseAthens and Catskill parishes team up, Albany offers a basketball camp andSaratoga keeps kids busy: Pages 3, 9, 16

PINING FOR FUNCOOPER PELLETT EXAMINES a pinecone during a forest walk by kids inthe summer enrichment programsponsored by St. Clement’s Schoolin Saratoga Springs. For more pho-tos, see the back page. (NateWhitchurch photo)

BY ANGELA CAVES T A F F W R I T E R

Hearing poolside confessionsand praying for a tour bus pas-senger to find her passport are amatter of course for Rev. CharlesGaffigan.

A priest of the AlbanyDiocese for almost half a centu-ry, Father Gaffigan has spent hisspare time traveling as a cruiseship chaplain for 42 years.

Aboard the vessels, he cele-

brates daily and Sunday Masses,as well as Protestant servicesand a Saturday ecumenical serv-ice. He also volunteers to keeptrack of travelers on land tours.

At 76, he says he’ll continuecruising “as long as I have myhealth.”

Father Gaffigan still recalls hisfirst cruise ship service, when heand his brother, also a priest,donned yarmulkes and recruit-

ed Jewish passengers to readHebrew passages. They got introuble for lighting candles onthe Sabbath.

Over the years, FatherGaffigan has learned to let rab-bis or Jewish laypeople step into lead the Jewish parts of theservice, but he likes to deliverecumenical homilies.

WORLD TRAVELER

Priest vacations ascruise ship chaplain

PRIEST VACATIONS AS CRUISE SHIP CHAP-LAIN, SEE PAGE 5

BishopHubbardsupportsPsalty

WORLD YOUTH DAY

Shhhhh: WYD makes space for silenceBY CINDY WOODENC A T H O L I C N E W S S E R V I C E

Vatican City — Pope BenedictXVI has put his own stamp onthe Church’s celebration ofWorld Youth Day, and it’s espe-cially clear in the gathering’smoments of prayer.

In Cologne, Germany, sixyears ago — Pope Benedict’sfirst WYD as pope — he sur-prised the youths at theSaturday night vigil by urgingthem to quiet down.

The Cologne event was wherehe started a major new WYDtradition: Instead of ending thevigil with a boisterous musicalfinale, he ended it with eucharis-tic adoration — with tens ofthousands of young peoplekneeling silently in a field. Thescene was repeated in Australiain 2008.

During World Youth Day 2011,scheduled for Aug. 16-21 inMadrid, eucharistic adorationagain will cap the pope’s partici-pation at the vigil. Adorationand prayer also will continuethroughout the night on theedges of the military airportwhere many of the young peo-ple are expected to campovernight.

In fact, organizers are plan-ning to have 17 tents set up aschapels for all-night adoration.

The visual focal point whenthe pope leads the adorationand Benediction will be a mon-strance set into a towering 16th-century gothic structure of sil-ver and gold usually housed inthe Toledo cathedral.

NORWAY

Pope decries terror attacks BY CAROL GLATZC A T H O L I C N E W S S E R V I C E

Vatican City — In the wake oftwo terror attacks in Norwaythat left at least 93 people dead,Pope Benedict XVI called for anend to hatred and ideologiesthat promote evil.

“We are all deeply saddenedby the serious terrorist acts,” thepope said after praying theAngelus with pilgrims at thepapal summer residence inCastel Gandolfo July 24.

The pope launched an appeal“to abandon once and for all thepath of violence and avoid prin-ciples of evil.”

As a further expression of hiscondolences and prayers forthose affected by the attacks, thepope sent a message toNorway’s King Harald V.

Written on behalf of the popeby Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone,Vatican secretary of state, thepope said he was praying for allthose affected by “the acts ofsenseless violence perpetratedin Oslo and Utoya.”

The pope asked that the coun-try “be spiritually united in adetermined resolve to reject theways of hatred and conflict andto work together fearlessly inshaping a future of mutualrespect, solidarity and freedomfor coming generations.”

Explosives ripped throughNorwegian government head-quarters in Oslo July 22, leavingseven people dead and dozens

SHHHHH: WYD MAKES SPACE FORSILENCE, SEE PAGE 6

POPE DECRIES TERROR ATTACKS, SEEPAGE 7