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Court rules it must open files The court said the church must follow the same rules as secular organizations and hand over personnel files, transfer records for church assignments and the results of internal church investigations to a trial judge to decide whether any of the information falls under legal privilege and can be kept…

From the Globe, beginning with this article on the socio-economic distribution of the closed parishes The rate of closings is higher in nonwhite neighborhoods. The typical parish being closed or merged is in a neighborhood that is 16 percent nonwhite, while the typical parish being spared is 9 percent nonwhite. And parishes with a non-English…

In the NCR(eporter), Fr. Frank Pavone of Priests for Life responds to the paper’s editorial on politicians, life issues and the dreaded “narrow litmus test.” Great stuff. Any vision of this country worth struggling for includes a wide range of values — life itself, provision for its needs, education, employment, health care, peace, justice, and…

Indy priest might be assigned to parishes A Catholic priest arrested a year ago on a charge of public indecency is in line to lead three rural churches, a proposal the archbishop of Indianapolis says is about forgiveness but which some criticize as reckless and insensitive. In a letter to members of the three parishes,…
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