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How to merge two parishes: one pastor’s experience
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jmcgee
If you’d like some insight into how it’s done, this essay at the Catholic News Service is both informative, and inspiring. The pastor, Fr. Kenneth Doyle, concludes: There is still, of course, some sadness over the merger and some adjustment yet to be made; it is not an easy thing to give up the place…
The deer hunter priest
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jmcgee
A lot of priests have a hobby. But here’s one that’s a little out of the ordinary: When Christopher Wenthe was an electrical engineer and single, living in the Twin Cities, he had lots of time to hunt and fish. The deer opener, like the duck and pheasant openers, wasn’t something he squeezed in between…
“We are called to be heralds of hope”
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jmcgee
With those words, a Catholic bishop has called for mercy for a convicted killer sentenced to die: As Virginia prepared to execute convicted sniper John Allen Muhammad, Bishop Paul S. Loverde of Arlington called for mercy and urged that Muhammad’s sentence be commuted to life in prison without possibility of parole. In the needles of…
First group of Anglicans accepts pope’s offer
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jmcgee
They’re making history, and they’re from across the pond: The Traditional Anglican Communion’s province in Great Britain has become the first to accept Pope Benedict XVI’s Apostolic Constitution for Anglicans. All its members voted unanimously to come into communion with Rome under the terms of the new provision, which allows them to retain their Anglican…
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