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I thank your Archbishop, His Eminence Cardinal Roger Mahony, for his invitation to join you at this annual Prayer Breakfast. It is a sign of strength in the Catholic community when you respond to the innate desire that is planted within us by the gift of the Holy Spirit in our baptism and confirmation to want to know God and his holy will better. In this way we can better be his instruments in helping humanity fulfill its true destiny as one human family, where every person has the opportunity to respond to God's invitation to know and love him...

San Francisco -- Roman Catholic Archbishop William Levada, soon to be the highest ranking American at the Vatican, celebrated his last Sunday Mass here before thousands of admiring parishioners. But the event also drew critics. And minutes before Levada began the procession to the altar at St. Mary's Cathedral he was handed a subpoena requiring him to give a deposition concerning sex abuse cases against clergy members in another archdiocese. . . .

The Declaration Dominus Jesus issued by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Tuesday reaffirms the fundamental teaching of Christian revelation, as handed down in the Catholic Church, on the role of Jesus Christ and the role of the Catholic Church in our salvation. The declaration, which was approved and affirmed by the Holy Father, proceeds from a theological context and presents classic truths of the Catholic faith in contrast to relativistic theories. The declaration is a response to several confusing or erroneous ideas regarding what it means to call Jesus Christ the one savior of the...