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Rocco picks up on the unexpected resignation of the Bishop of Mandeville, Jamaica – who is only 59 and had gone to Jamaica in 2004, after serving as an auxiliary in Baltimore for 6 years.

Archbishop Dolan on one of the Pittsburgh 12: Dolan wrote to parishioners at St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Waukesha that it was his duty to notify the Vatican of Vandenberg’s action. Dolan said her excommunication could come soon. The Roman Catholic Church prohibits women from becoming priests. Vandenberg, 64, said Monday that she was "startled"…

Steven Riddle on the bombings at Hiroshima and Nagasaki – he quotes a passage from Michihiko Hachiya’s Hiroshima Diary. Another voice to explore is Takashi Nagai, another physician, Catholic convert, who had just been diagnosed with leukemia a few weeks before the bomb was dropped on Nagasaki, killing his wife. He lived for six more…

Christopher Johnson’s ingenious solution to passages like this, found in a recent newspaper article: The irony is, Catholicism was part of the Episcopal Church before a split in the 1500s.
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