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Featured Article: “Mercy Is the Lord’s Most Powerful Message!” - Do you remember where you were and what you were doing when Jorge Mario Bergoglio, S.J., the Cardinal Archbishop of Buenos Aries, Argentina, was elected Pope Francis, the Bishop of Rome and 265th Successor of St. Peter?

If you were in the continental United States, chances are you were at work (or school), perhaps finishing lunch. I was in my office, having completed editing an article I had written on the papacy only a few hours before.

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Bishop Ricard goes to Africa

Bishop Ricard goes to AfricaBishop John Ricard, SSJ, of Pensacola-Tallahassee, preaches to seminary students during Mass at St. Peter's Regional Seminary in Pedu, outside Cape Coast, Ghana. Bishop Ricard was leading a delegation representing the U.S. bishops' subcommittee on the Church in Africa, and a solidarity trip to the African nation of Ghana and Nigeria.

Other members of the delegation included Washington Auxiliary Bishop Martin A.Holley and Bishop Howard J. Hubbard of Albany, N.Y. Bishop Ricard holds a 6-month-old Richard Samuel at Our Lady of Apostles Hospital in Akawanga, Nigeria. Bishop Ricard, and Bishop Holley, along with Rosaline GanDzide, listen as a guide describes the former slave dungeon at the Cape Coast Castle Museum in Cape Coast, Ghana.

Ricard in Africa Ricard Delegation in Africa

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