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A big chunk of parishes. Two dozen of the Toledo Catholic Diocese’s 157 parishes are recommended for closure as part of a realignment study designed to consolidate parishes with too few members and assign a dwindling number of priests to no more than two parishes at a time (See Diocesan statistics below). Bishop Leonard P.…

And yet again from the Tablet, one German cardinal strongly critiques another. Germany’s leading conservative cardinal has bitterly criticised Cardinal Karl Lehmann, the Archbishop of Mainz, for allowing dissident theologians to express their views at last month’s annual Katholikentag conference. Cardinal Joachim Meisner, Archbishop of Cologne, criticised Lehmann, who is the president of the German…

Also from the Tablet, , the results of a survey of readers’ favorite hymns. (In case you’re not familiar with it, the Tablet is the UK’s premier Roman Catholic newspaper). And here’s a discussion of the choices If old-stagers from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (and even from the seventeenth century in the case of…

A Tablet interview with Dr. Stuart Campbell, the Scottish doctor responsible for those remarkable 4D images of unborn babies that came out a couple of weeks ago. The doctor has changed his views on abortion – a bit – he believes that the legal limit for abortions (now 24 weeks there) should be gradually dropped…

A piece from Opinion Journal looking at the beliefs of “born again” teens About one-third of American teenagers claim they’re “born again” believers, according to data gathered over the past few years by Barna Research Group, the gold standard in data about the U.S. Protestant church, and 88% of teens say they are Christians. About…

From Rod Dreher: I’d like to ask you to make a correction to the record in the Father Clay matter. There’s been a lot of blog talk — much of it by me — referring to Father Clay’s suspension from ministry by the Diocese of Scranton. I’ve just spoken to Maria Orzel, spokeswoman for the…

With all of your Church bankruptcy news, here’s , well, The Catholic Church Bankrupcy News, its first issue free, but available to subscribers only afterwards. FYI.

Stuart Buck penned an entry on the subject a few days ago that has been the subject of much discussion at The Corner, beginning here and going up.

A parish gets it rolling (Link requires registration) Sts. Peter and Paul Catholic Church members are signing up to pray 24 hours a day at a small Perpetual Adoration chapel where they believe Christ — or his physical representation — must never be left alone. “I’m praying for a Wilmington with lower crime, less graffiti,…

Teacher who knew of allegations in that Rockford case fired. Late last week, the head of schools for the diocese, Sister Patricia Downey, requested a meeting with Ward, which took place at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the St. Charles library. The meeting was between Ward, her daughter, Downey and the diocese’s lawyer, Ellen Lynch. Downey…
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