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“For the foreseeable future, the institution of the church will continue to shrink, and the number of priests and sisters will become steadily smaller. Even as new forms of lay ministry expand, the reconfiguration of the institutions and agencies of the church will have to be accomplished cooperatively. For their part, lay people are eager to participate in this process of seeking new ways of ‘being the church.’ As time puts distance between ourselves and the events of the scandal, it seems increasingly significant that large numbers of Catholics did not simply abandon the church. That they stayed with it, even amid the heartbreaking scandal, evinces a desire to remain faithful members of the church. That commonality of faith has sustained them for the last two hundred years and will be essential for the next century — centuries — of Catholics of Boston.”<\/div>\n

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— History professor James M. O’Toole,
in “Two Centuries of Faith: The Influence of Catholicism on Boston, 1808-2008.”<\/div>\n
You can read more about him and the book at Michael Paulson’s Articles of Faith blog<\/a>. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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