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Hot on the heels of the news out of Camden, another diocese — in fact, an archdiocese — is bracing for massive “restructuring,” i.e., parish closings and mergers. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Archbishop Alfred Hughes on Saturday began asking Catholics across metropolitan New Orleans, including those far from the flood zone, to prepare for…

Here’s a corner of Catholicism we don’t often hear about: Japan. The New York Times reports on how the faith there is surviving, even as churches are dwindling: Fringed with sheer cliffs and the narrowest strips of flat land, covered in mountains of dense forest, the islands of the Goto Archipelago of Japan are some…

Leave it to a commentator in Los Angeles — where trends begin and fashion queens reign — to understand, better than his counterparts in the East, that some of the pontiff’s most important pronouncements aren’t made with phrases, but with fabric. From the LA Times: Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States later this…

It may have not made big headlines, but I have no doubt it stunned a good many people in the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey: a massive restructuring of the diocese that will see fully half of the parishes shuttered. Details below, from the Inquirer: As Bishop Joseph A. Galante braced for the grief he…
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