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Those venerable words from St. Paul could well capture the sentiment of this author, writing about how funeral liturgies, and especially their homilies, have lost their force. The author is David Lewis Stokes Jr., an associate professor of theology at Providence College in Rhode Island. And he makes some very good points: Of all the…

They’re fixtures in a lot of neighborhoods: small (sometimes kitschy) statues of the saints, or Mary, benevolently watching over the daisies and dandelions in the front yard. But one community in Long Island has, in effect, evicted them, according to Newsday: The Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights Tuesday urged residents of a Medford…

That’s the heartfelt and hopeful message buried deep inside today’s latest (last??!!) posting at Whispers in the Loggia. I, for one, find it hard to believe Rocco might be signing off from the spot that has become required reading across so much of the Catholic world. (If you doubt it, just try to find anyone…

Days after the Diocese of Orange County, California announced a multi-million dollar settlement to four female sex abuse victims, three of the four came forward to reveal their identities. Here’s the latest from the Orange County Register: Three women who settled their sexual abuse lawsuits against the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange for millions of…
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