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After too-long a time, the Diocese of Pittsburgh is getting ready to welcome a new bishop. Hometown boy David Zubik is to be installed at the end of September, and he’s already making the rounds of the local media. Here’s a nugget from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: David A. Zubik once hoped to be winning lawsuits,…

It’s one of the most vexing problems facing the Church: how to woo back sheep who have strayed, Catholics who are no longer practicing. An Arizona newspaper has a profile of some people who are trying to reach this particular group — and believe that they can, in fact, be reached: Catholics like Pat Julian…

Novelist Mary Gordon has just published a new book, with memories of her mother and her Catholic upbringing in the middle of the last century. For anyone who wonders what it was like to come of age during that particular time, the book, “Circling My Mother,” appears to be a vivid reminder of what the…

What happens to a church after it’s closed? Here in New York City, I know of a couple places that have become condos (with awesomely high ceilings and stunning stained glass windows in the master bedroom.) But a reporter at the Religion News Service decided to find out what various religions do when a temple…
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