Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church / The financial cost: "12/4/2003
Through much of the 20th century, the Italianate palazzo that was home to each of Boston's cardinal-archbishops symbolized the glory of the Catholic Church in Boston.
But over the last two years, as the church has been rocked by the sexual abuse scandal, the house has come to symbolize a distance between the leaders of the church and its laypeople.
Yesterday's announcement by the archdiocese that it plans to sell the mansion, as well as 28 acres of surrounding property, marks a new era for the archdiocese, which is trying to reestablish its credibility after acknowledging that scores of priests allegedly sexually abused minors over five decades."
fell over this while researchihg early RC registers :-
Sxxxxxxxxx@aol.com wrote:
> In 1908 England and Wales ceased to be missionary territory and 'Missions' became legally constituted parishes in 1918.
thank you Stan for adding precision to my recollection
the point I was making for example in South Wales the faithful,
many of whom were workers from Ireland when the industrial revolution ran out of local labour, travelled long distances
and even to the next county to participate in RC church services.
So baptisms for exmple may be in registers way away from the expected location<<
NEW ADVENT: Home
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Through much of the 20th century, the Italianate palazzo that was home to each of Boston's cardinal-archbishops symbolized the glory of the Catholic Church in Boston.
But over the last two years, as the church has been rocked by the sexual abuse scandal, the house has come to symbolize a distance between the leaders of the church and its laypeople.
Yesterday's announcement by the archdiocese that it plans to sell the mansion, as well as 28 acres of surrounding property, marks a new era for the archdiocese, which is trying to reestablish its credibility after acknowledging that scores of priests allegedly sexually abused minors over five decades."
fell over this while researchihg early RC registers :-
Sxxxxxxxxx@aol.com wrote:
> In 1908 England and Wales ceased to be missionary territory and 'Missions' became legally constituted parishes in 1918.
thank you Stan for adding precision to my recollection
the point I was making for example in South Wales the faithful,
many of whom were workers from Ireland when the industrial revolution ran out of local labour, travelled long distances
and even to the next county to participate in RC church services.
So baptisms for exmple may be in registers way away from the expected location<<
NEW ADVENT: Home
is a good basic reference with a google site search
Google Search:NEW ADVENT
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