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You read stories like this and you cannot help but stirred by the human capacity to forgive. It’s from the New York Times, with a big fat hat tip to Rod Dreher at Beliefnet: For more than a quarter mile, Clifford Helm veered in his pickup truck through a grassy median and oncoming traffic. What…

Hot on the heels of the news out of Camden, another diocese — in fact, an archdiocese — is bracing for massive “restructuring,” i.e., parish closings and mergers. From the New Orleans Times-Picayune: Archbishop Alfred Hughes on Saturday began asking Catholics across metropolitan New Orleans, including those far from the flood zone, to prepare for…

Here’s a corner of Catholicism we don’t often hear about: Japan. The New York Times reports on how the faith there is surviving, even as churches are dwindling: Fringed with sheer cliffs and the narrowest strips of flat land, covered in mountains of dense forest, the islands of the Goto Archipelago of Japan are some…

It may have not made big headlines, but I have no doubt it stunned a good many people in the Diocese of Camden, New Jersey: a massive restructuring of the diocese that will see fully half of the parishes shuttered. Details below, from the Inquirer: As Bishop Joseph A. Galante braced for the grief he…
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