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One parish, 600 baptisms a year
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jmcgee
Statistics like that are mind-blowing: my busy parish in Queens averages a little over 100 baptisms a year. Details: Extended families greet one another with hearty handshakes and pecks on the cheek as they file in to Incarnation church in Minneapolis on a recent Saturday morning. Professional photographers and videographers scope out ideal vantage points…
Priest slaps parishioner for desecrating Eucharist
By
jmcgee
It happened in Spain — but details are murky: A Catholic priest in Spain’s province of Valencia slapped a young man in a church in the town of Rótova during a local festival on the evening of September 5. Believing that the young man had discarded a communion wafer, which the Catholic faith teaches is…
Soaked: Protestant churches report more full immersion baptisms
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jmcgee
This can only be good news for the cotton towel industry. Details: Beneath a cloudless sky on a recent Sunday afternoon, John Oswald made a public profession of his Christian faith as he stood in the waters of Lake Michigan. Oswald, 43, of Libertyville, is a member of Christ Church Lake Forest and was baptized…
Brian Williams on confession and his mother, “a very old-school Catholic”
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jmcgee
The number-one rated nightly news anchor — and the only one of the Big Three who is Catholic — pours out his soul to Elle (well, sort of) in an interview that, among other things, touches rather unexpectedly on the sacrament of confession: ELLE: You’ve described your late mother as a “very old-school Catholic” who…
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