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An Open Letter to His Excellency the Most Rev. F. Joseph Gossman of Raleigh, North Carolina On practices and procedures surrounding the celebration of Holy Mass 2 May 2004 Dear Bishop Gossman, It has come to the attention of several lay parishioners from around your diocese that various Masses continue to be celebrated with the perpetration of liturgical abuse, as they have been celebrated for quite some time. In light of the disciplinary document, Redemptionis Sacramentum, released by the Holy See via the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments on 23 April, these parishioners and I...

Here's some of the more...interesting...excerpts from USCCB's examples of outstanding religious, for the 2004 World Day for Consecrated Life: BORDER STRADDLER  Father Michael Seifert is an Alabaman by birth and Mexican by choice. He lives on the Texas/Mexico border. In Brownsville, TX he works in Cameron Park, which, according to the U.S. Census, is the poorest community in the United States. In Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, he accompanies several small communities that live in the shantytowns that line the border. Each week he goes to Mexico and the poor there remind him who Christ is, and each morning he wakes up...