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Across the river, Boston’s murder rate climbed to its highest in a decade, with 63 murders reported as of Dec. 5, according to the Boston Globe...
North Carolina, in fact, suddenly had the highest Hispanic growth rate in the U.S. One arrival was Carlos Medina, 55, who arrived 10 years ago from Nicaragua via Miami. "In 1983 U.S. bishops prophesied in a pastoral letter that Hispanic people would revive, maybe even save, the church in this country," says Medina, who owns a painting company in Charlotte and is a deacon at Our Lady of the Assumption, where he assists the priest with the popular Spanish-language Masses. "I think it came true...
...church that has suffered so many setbacks in recent years, it's hard to argue with such success. Southern dioceses like Charlotte not only boast some of the highest numbers of priestly ordinations in the U.S.; they're also a magnet for new clergy from the North. The current generation of U.S. Catholic seminarians, weaned on the strict dogma of Pope John Paul II, is more conservative than its predecessors who came of age in the 1960s and '70s in the wake of Vatican II. Many, like the new parochial vicar at St. Mark, the Rev. Timothy Reid...
...This is an artist who is not merely an able practitioner at the highest level that one kind can find worldwide, but someone who understands the call…to be a force for the good of the people,” said Levin, the Robinson professor of music...
...creators—James C. Harrington ’03, Michael D. Cornish ’03, and Luke R. Long ’03—cited a commitment to the highest possible quality as explanation for the DVD’s delayed release...