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Heavily Catholic but not all of it. Jim Bowman covered religion for the Chicago Daily News, 1968 to its closing 1978. Free-lancing then to now, stayed with religion, including 2 books, Bending the Rules: What American Priests Tell American Catholics and Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968. Will cover religion here as in olden time.
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The Synod on Synodality is just around the corner in October and already one can feel the excitement building among rank-and-file Catholics…
. . . has ever really listened to them.
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Jim Bowman
What kind of sinner are you? When Will Pope Francis Update the “Hail Mary”? New mass a lost cause, but all is not lost? LET’S HEAR IT FOR…
For the sinner, the disappointed, reformers, traditionalists, and for that matter the satisfied and contented but curious who wonder what's all the…
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As synodality looms, a bishop-in-charge-of-a-diocese deploys traditional language that never passes the lips of his international superior …
Strickland of Texas is the one . . .
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The synod is coming, hurrah, hurrah, all hail the coming synod -- on synodality, if you will. Buckle up, all ye pew-sitters . . .
The cardinal of Chicago can start you off . . .
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More Jesuit training in the 1950s, picking up from my Company Man book, from months ago: the coming of the philosophical mind . . .
. . . In the once great distillery of knowledge, West Baden College, in the great state of Indiana.
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Worshipers, pay attention, the priest up front leading you along is not only a priest, he's a "presider." Read about that here . . .
Plus observations on a typical sermon, the whole thing ending on a happy note for Latin mass lovers . . .
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"It is probably too late to pull the plug on this event," says NC Reporter man, meaning the impending Eucharistic Congress . . .
. . . which is one of the last things the church's NCReporter branch has interest in.
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