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More parish closings and consolidations may be on the way — this time, in South Dakota: Thirty-five eastern South Dakota Catholic parishes could lose their regular Masses by 2012 under a plan led by Bishop Paul Swain of the Catholic Diocese of Sioux Falls. Whether the churches, which are mostly in smaller towns, will eventually…

My first thought when I read this was: “What were they thinking?” My second was: “How many times has this happened before, and we don’t hear about it…?” Take a look: Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week…

“What is the opposite of the ‘big lie’? Trust. When questioned by an English journalist about the future of the Religious Order that he co-founded, Father Benedict Groeschel gave a simple reply, “We have no plans, except to be led by God.” None of us knows what the future holds, but hopefully we can embrace…

The rampant speculation about who will succeed Cardinal Edward Egan as Archbishop of New York has now reached a fever pitch — and the pages of the New York Times: Catholics in Rome and the United States who track movements in the hierarchy say the Vatican is close to announcing who will claim what may…
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