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Blessing the animals for the feast of St. Francis of Assisi is a nice tradition. But a Dutch priest is taking things to extremes: A canary, a goldfish, a guinea pig, a handful of cats and more than two dozen dogs received blessings from a Catholic priest in church Thursday to mark World Animal Day.…

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Here’s a trend I hadn’t heard about before: altar servers who are long past the age of puberty. By decades, in fact. They look nothing like the picture on the left. This, from a paper in New Jersey: As a young girl, Ginny Topolski looked on from the pews of the Church of the Most…

Coverage of the installation of the new bishop of Birmingham has been mysteriously scarce — in the general media and in the blogosphere (as one of my readers noted). But Whispers in the Loggia has corrected that injustice with a lengthy report that includes one or two eyebrow-raisers, along with Robert Baker’s homily. Take it…
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