>>>>>Here's one of the best news stories I've read in a while.
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>>>>>http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/30/konrad-krajewski_n_4363663.html
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>>>>I like this guy.
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>>>>Another one I liked, local, was Cardinal Joseph Bernardin. Joseph Cardinal Bernardin, I guess it's said officially. He was a man of the people. He kept the pomp and circumstance to a minimum. One of the details I liked was how he was with his mother. She had dementia and died in a nursing home. She always asked him what he was doing. Still working for the church, mom. He never told her he was a cardinal.
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>>>Agreed, Mike. Bernadin was a good one.
>>>Another one is O'Malley in Boston.
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>>>On the other hand most of them just don't get it.
>>>We got a new bishop recently in Trenton.
>>>Trenton, like many former manufacturing cities, is ridden with decay, crime and poverty.
>>>Rather than keep his residence in Trenton, where the diocesan residence has been since its inception, this guy bought a house in Princeton, saying that he felt better "entertaining guests" there.
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>>>I can't imagine Francis doing that.
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>>There are some bad priests, lord knows. The rules they have to live by must be a challenge.
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>>My wife was Catholic and our daughters were raised in the Catholic faith. I spent a good deal of time in a Catholic church, St. Gertrude in Chicago. The priest, Father Bill, was a prince among men. There was a recent funeral of a notable parishioner and I drove down to be at her service. I was pleased to see that Fr. Bill is still among us
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>I was raised as a catholic. My mother was Irsh catholic and so over the years I know quite a few pieists and nuns.Some where lovely but some where worrying to say the least. It was sad when my mother died that the local priest seemed to me like a "wrong un" . The new Pope does seem to be a sign of a little light in the Church.
>To me the priest should keep his residence in the most challenging part of town.

Kinda goes with that whole 'Jesus ate with the taxcollectors, etc' thing doesn't it?