Letter from Pastor of St. James

Weekly Contributions for the weekend of September 22, 2013

 

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Letter to St. James parishioners from pastor

 

 

Weekly Contributions for the weekend of September 15, 2013

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St. James gets break on DSP and still short

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Last mass in old St. James October 27, 2013

Weekly Contributions for the weekend of September 8, 2013

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Outspoken priest urges church to examine celibacy and abuse 'link' - Independent.ie

Sarah MacDonald

Fr Flannery has been suspended from ministry and threatened with excommunication by the Vatican over his stand on mandatory clerical celibacy, contraception and women priests. He is one of the first priests to publicly question a possible linkage of celibacy and clerical abuse.

He made his comments in an interview with the Irish Independent ahead of the launch on Thursday of his new book, 'A Question of Conscience'.

Outspoken priest urges church to examine celibacy and abuse 'link' - Independent.ie

KC diocese seeing increased child abuse calls - seattlepi.com

 

Calls to a child abuse ombudsman for the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph increased 35 percent after the diocese enacted child protections programs in response to a controversy over how it handled past complaints.

Ombudsman Jenifer Valenti said in a report released Thursday that she received 107 calls about child abuse or "boundary violations" in the reporting year that ended in June, compared with 79 the previous reporting year, The Kansas City Star reported

KC diocese seeing increased child abuse calls - seattlepi.com

Weekly Contributions for the weekend of September 1, 2013

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