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It's 7 p.m. on a weeknight, and around 100 professionals from commercial and investment banks, brokerage and investment management firms, and other financial service companies are meeting in Boston. Arriving after work, the attendees have put their workday routines aside for a couple of hours, gathering for
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In 1630, John Winthrop, the leader of the Puritan founders who landed in Boston, delivered what would become a famous sermon just before the first group of Massachusetts Bay Colonists departed for America on the ship Arbella. The sermon, titled "A Model of Christian Charity," is one of
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I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life! — Deuteronomy 30:19 Every Thursday morning at 7:30, a number of men meet for breakfast at the Union Club in Boston. They gather to enjoy fellowship, make new friends, and help each other through this
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A standing-room-only crowd jammed St. Anthony's Church in East Falmouth for the funeral Mass of a former pastor murdered in Texas last month. Father Bill Costello, 71, was remembered for his sense of humor, kindness, and individualism at the parish where he formed close connections with congregants over
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I attended a Catholic seminary from 1978 to 1980 and … No, I don't have any lurid stories to share.
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A bombshell letter calling out Pope Francis for his chummy association with a cardinal known to have sexually abused seminarians also questions Cardinal Sean O'Malley's denial that he knew anything about the now-disgraced churchman's past. "Regarding Cardinal Sean O'Malley, I would
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Cardinal Sean O'Malley says he didn't know about former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick's sexual abuse of teen-age boys and young-adult seminarians and that he never saw a letter from a New York priest three years ago describing McCarrick's troubling behavior. "Allegations regarding
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You'll know things are getting better in the Roman Catholic Church if by the end of the week at least 15 high-ranking bishops have resigned because of what they have done and what they have failed to do about clerics committing sexual abuse. One of those should be
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