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This news broke Thursday afternoon: The board of trustees of a Staten Island Catholic Church have rejected the controversial sale of a church building to a Muslim group looking to open a mosque. The collapse of the deal – which would have transferred the vacant convent of St. Margaret Mary Church to the Muslim American…

That’s the hook behind a new book by Cambridge-educated journalist Hephzibah Anderson. The author of “Chastened: The Unexpected Story of My Year Without Sex” chatted about it recently with TIME magazine: Looking back, what was the most surprising part of the year? I was certainly surprised by how sensual the world seemed. We tend to…

Sad news, from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The Rev. Patrick Rager, 50, a Catholic priest widely regarded as a living saint for ministering to others as a fatal disease slowly paralyzed him, died Tuesday at home in West Homestead. “He really is a yet-to-be-canonized saint,” said Bishop David Zubik of Pittsburgh, who has archived papers for…

That seems to be the winning formula in Albany, which just ordained its largest number of priests in decades: In this era when vocations to the priesthood are as sluggish as the economy, the Albany Roman Catholic Diocese is celebrating the ordination of five priests, two of whom who entered religious life as a second…
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