Catholics to close 301 schools nationwide
New York Times report from South Bend indicates 301 Catholic elementary and secondary schools will close next month and 111 more will phase out grades as part of consolidations. The Notre Dame study covers 148 dioceses and projects 59,952 affected students with significant public school cost shifts.
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Mass Wedding for 60 Couples Planned in Lisbon
Sixty couples will wed on June 13, St. Anthony day, in Lisbon in a mass ceremony sponsored by Diario Popular. Over 12 years 532 couples from the city’s poor have taken part, receiving home furniture, a chance at prizes, and gifts from sponsors. This year includes a marriage-prep course, six priests will wed in groups of ten, and Pope Paul VI’s blessing is expected. About 2,000 guests attend the banquet for the newlyweds.
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Demotion protested by saints on unemployment protest
In Los Angeles a group picketed on behalf of 40 saints removed from the official Catholic calendar. Twenty five youths, robes on, sang When the Saints Go Marching In and carried placards questioning sainthood security. They filed unemployment benefit applications for the saints.
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