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The Deacon's Bench
How does your church rate?
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jmcgee
Now there’s a place where you can find out. The story is in this morning’s Detroit Free Press: We use dating Web sites to find soul mates. Now, some entrepreneurs want to take that to a higher level and help you find the perfect spiritual home. Consider ChurchRater.com, a church-shopping Web site that allows users…
It’s a big church — in every sense
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jmcgee
It’s not often that a beautiful and historic church in a city like New York gets a new altar — and gets a full-blown rededication, complete with cardinal and archbishop. But that happened recently at St. Francis Xavier Church in Manhattan. The church, as you can see in the video below (beautifully shot and produced…
“Lost” found its ending at a Catholic school in Hawaii
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jmcgee
If you saw the “Lost” finale, you couldn’t miss the religious overtones — or the setting. Now CNS is revealing where it was filmed: The gateway to heaven is through the chapel doors at Sacred Hearts Academy in Honolulu. Or so one could argue after watching the series finale of the ABC-TV show “Lost” in…
Can LA teach the Vatican how to fill pews?
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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.…
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