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  • Church welcomes return to the faith (Catholics returning home)

    03/05/2006 5:45:57 AM PST · by NYer · 20 replies · 380+ views
    Philly Burbs ^ | March 5, 2006 | Elizabeth Fisher
    The last thing Sally Mews wants to remember is her violent childhood in the Midwest, marred as it was by alcoholic parents and constant abuse, made worse, she said, by the ridicule of nuns in school who had no idea what she and her siblings were going through at home. "We were always considered problems, always held up as examples of how not to behave," Mews said. "When you're young and vulnerable, that's painful."But Mews' spiritual journey has taken her from that rocky start - and a long estrangement from the Catholic Church - to the creator of a national...
  • Parents miss Mass, kids get ax

    06/27/2005 1:42:52 PM PDT · by Coleus · 752 replies · 7,853+ views
    NY Daily News ^ | 06.27.05 | NANCY DILLON
    Parents miss Mass, kids get ax The pastor of a Staten Island Catholic church is playing holy hardball - kicking hundreds of kids out of religious ed classes because their families aren't showing up at Mass. The Rev. Michael Cichon, pastor of St. Joseph/St. Thomas in Pleasant Plains, used each family's bar-coded donation envelope to track attendance. He's tossed about 300 kids from classes and told them not to reapply until next April. Without the classes, children cannot receive the sacraments, meaning some youngsters who thought they'd be making their First Communion next year will have to wait. The...