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Big news from northeastern Pennsylvania this weekend, as the bishop announced a massive restructuring that will affect every parishioner: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Scranton is closing almost half of its churches, reducing the number of parishes from 209 to 118. In a statement, Bishop Joseph Martino said the restructuring plan affects every single parish…

Our Byzantine brothers and sisters gathered recently in snowy Pennsylvania to continue a winter tradition: On a frigid, snowy Sunday afternoon, congregants and clergy from five local Byzantine churches celebrated their faith atop Veterans Memorial Bridge, singing a prayer as a priest cast a cross of ice onto the frozen Susquehanna River below. Police closed…

My “goddaughter” in Florida sent this to me, and it’s fascinating: a cathedral carved from salt. Take a look.

Some may remember the stories of churches being occupied by unhappy parishioners in Boston and New Orleans. Now police have made some arrests in Louisiana: At least three people have been arrested today after the Archdiocese of New Orleans sent police to two occupied Catholic churches to remove parishioners who for more than nine weeks…
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