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Why mass is like Disneyland
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jmcgee
It’s all about clothes. Below is a vintage photograph of guests at Disneyland in the 1950s. And below, from 2006. It’s not too great of a leap to compare the fashions at an amusement park to the clothes at church. With a few scenic adjustments, both the pictures above might be set at any Catholic…
The Fall of the House of Usher
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jmcgee
Those kindly folks who help take up the collection can cause trouble, it seems: Police responded to Mary, Mother of God Roman Catholic Church on Sunday for a report of a fight in the parking lot between an usher and a parishioner after the usher told the parishioner to stop videotaping during Mass. That prompted…
Can LA teach the Vatican how to fill pews?
By
jmcgee
An interesting observation here, from blogger Joe Ferullo: My 23-year-old cousin from Italy has been staying with us for three months. A lot of things have surprised him about Los Angeles — the wide streets, old buildings that were only built forty years ago, and that fact that people actually fill the churches around here.…
First Communion for 500
By
jmcgee
‘Tis the season for First Communions and Confirmations — and a parish in California may well have one of the largest First Communion classes anywhere. How’s THIS for feeding the multitude? From Catholic San Francisco: Saturday morning first Communion instruction at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in East Palo Alto is too big by…
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