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Catholics are a distinct minority in Alabama, but a paper there reports on some of the efforts underway to find and bring back lapsed members of the flock: Churches grow and shrink. That’s something that has al­ways happened in the religious community, including the Cath­olic Church. But when the Cath­olic Church starts shrinking, it does…

Hot on the heels of yesterday’s dispiriting news about the way Cardinal Egan is reassigning priests in his archdiocese, we have this word that someone is coughing up money — a LOT of money — to save a church: An anonymous donor has come to the rescue of St. Brigid’s Roman Catholic Church in the…

I’m not entirely sure what to make of this story, out of Minnesota. I’m sure the priest must have very good reasons for choosing this course of action. But if I had to ask myself WWJD … well, I don’t think it would be this: The mother of a 13-year-old autistic boy who was banned…

Over at Beliefnet, Rod Dreher this weekend blogged about an ongoing conversation with an old friend of his, an ex-priest. Dreher himself is a convert to Catholicism, who left the Church after the scandals of ’02, and is now in the Orthodox Church. So he has, you might say, issues. But in a letter, his…
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