France Faces Priest Shortage And Secular Drift
A portrait of a shrinking French priesthood as numbers fall from 440000 to about 400000 globally, with France hardest hit. Priests leave for secular work, marriag es rise, and celibacy remains a core dispute shaping church policy and parish life.
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Cornie Skeens’s two lives on a West Virginia farm
In Palermo West Virginia Cornie Skeens recalls a life split by a 1956 coal mine accident that cost him his legs. He lived years in New Jersey rehabilitation and now moves with wheelchairs and hand controls, a familiar figure on Upper Mud River Road.
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Maysburg
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