“It is not what we would like the Council to have said that must determine our course, but what the Council really said.” —Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger History will judge 2005 an extraordinary year in the life of the Catholic Church: It marks both the start of a new papacy and the 40th anniversary of the … Read more
St. Augustine’s in south Boston—a grand old church of Irish Beantown—will close in November under Boston’s parish consolidations. Its smaller counterpart, St. Monica’s, will remain open. The archdiocese’s logic makes sense: St. Augustine’s needed millions in maintenance and renovations, and it’s located in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood where churches closed in earlier contractions have since … Read more