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A couple of things: From my old acquaintance Kevin in Toledo – who was always so helpful sending along great links! – comes another which looks fascinating: Found full text online of vol. 1 of memoirs of Sarah Peter, a prominent American convert in mid-1800s.  Her letters during her first trip to Rome (around pg.…

Portland Bishop Malone has threatened a sexual-abuse activist with the interdict: The leader of Maine’s Roman Catholics has taken the unusual step of threatening to punish an outspoken advocate for people who were sexually abused by priests, possibly by denying him communion. Paul Kendrick of Freeport has been banned from the Cathedral of the Immaculate…

Emilie Lemmons was a 40-year old mother of two young boys, and a long-time writer for the Catholic Spirit, the archdiocesan paper for Minneapolis-St. Paul. A year and a half ago, she was diagnosed with cancer, fought it, wrote about it, and died Christmas Eve. Here is her last column for the Spirit, published at…

The third and last segment of Laurie Goodstein’s excellent NYTimes series on foreign-born priests in the US, focusing on India – and questions about what’s going on – from the supply end. Bishop Pazhayattil said he chose which priests to send abroad very carefully. Some who volunteer, he said, could easily go astray so far…
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