[Desdemona]

ping

Just a little taste of what our local daily paper dishes out.

Incidentally, the picture that was in the paper this morning was NOT the one posted on the website.

[Salvation]

**Another 25 percent of all baptized Catholic children who attend secular schools are enrolled in weekly religion courses at their parishes.**

This is a good percentage. We would all being jumping and joyously celebrating if we got 1/4 of our parishes to participate!

BTW, I just realized that maybe my parish is among that!

We are a 600 family parish and we regularly have turnouts of 200-250 people for some events. And we hope to improve that. That number even holds true for our small faith sharing groups for Lent last year -- we had nearly 400 individuals!

Wow!

[sinkspur]

"What the archdiocese needs at this moment is a shepherd who will listen to the clergy and laity and take advice," said the Rev. William Barnaby Faherty, archdiocesan historian and author. "We need a man with the warm pastoral ways of the first Bishop Joseph Rosati and Archbishop May."

Ouch.

Kinda of a kick in the head to Rigali.

[dsc]

"social justice organizations"

Red flag! Red flag! Bong, bong, bong, bong...

[ArrogantBustard]

More lay persons lead archdiocesan departments, agencies and schools than ever before, while the number of diocesan priests is the lowest in more than a century.

They say that like it's a good thing. In fact, it's a damning indictment of the incompetence of the vocations director(s) over the last decade or three.

[LadyDoc]

King envisions lay-run parishes with a range of programs and social justice outreach with priests from religious orders arriving for Mass on Sunday

Translation: liberal churches run by feminists ex nuns and other PC people who want to use the church to promote socialism instead of holiness....