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A sobering sign of the times, in this story out of Cleveland: For people who are struggling to make ends meet, a sudden expense can be devastating, and there are times it can be catastrophic. A growing number of local people are finding themselves in this situation when a loved one dies. With the cost…

Mark Shea puts his finger on it right here. It’s clericalism.  And you see it rear its ugly head in some of the most divisive issues afflicting the Church, beginning with women’s ordination: What drives the push for women’s ordination is the thoroughly clericalist notion that the only real Catholic is an ordained Catholic. Since…

A friend sent this along, and it is truly mind-boggling. Or maybe, mind-blowing. Read it and weep, or maybe laugh, from a diocese in Mississippi: In June, the Mission and Ministry in Mississippi Task Force Committee held meetings with the leadership of religious order priests and religious communities of sisters and brothers to discuss, according…

A friend who follows baseball — Mike “God Googler” Hayes — draws my attention to a big loss in the world of sports: Bob Sheppard, whose elegant intonation as the public-address announcer at Yankee Stadium for more than half a century personified the image of Yankee grandeur, died Sunday at his home in Baldwin, on…
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