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How do you fit 10 days of clothes in one carry on?
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jmcgee
Easy. Just ask the people who fly every day for a living. The New York Times did, and got some great tips: To make room for these new travel necessities, many flight attendants roll their clothes rather than fold them to save space. Nerea Gomez-Cambronero, an attendant with Air Europa Líneas Aéreas in Majorca, Spain,…
Can LA teach the Vatican how to fill pews?
By
jmcgee
An interesting observation here, from blogger Joe Ferullo: My 23-year-old cousin from Italy has been staying with us for three months. A lot of things have surprised him about Los Angeles — the wide streets, old buildings that were only built forty years ago, and that fact that people actually fill the churches around here.…
Who we are: a snapshot of deacons in America
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jmcgee
The ink is still damp on this new study out of Georgetown on the permanent diaconate. But here are the major findings: • Twenty-one arch/dioceses report having more than 200 permanent deacons, with Chicago (646 deacons), Trenton (442 deacons), and Galveston-Houston (383) among the top three. Deacons currently minister in all but one diocese in…
Quote of the day: “The church has a profound need to relearn penance…”
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jmcgee
“Attacks on the pope and the church come not only from outside the church, but the suffering of the church comes from inside the church, from sins that exist inside the church. This we have always known but today we see it in a really terrifying way. The biggest weight on the church doesn’t come…
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