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 Youth celebrate Bicentennial at Proud 2B Catholic festival
FRAMINGHAM -- Sunshine, good music and fantastic company describe the Proud 2B Catholic Music Festival held Aug. 9. Close to 1,000 people attended the all-day concert, which was the official bicentennial celebration for the youth of the Archdiocese of Boston. While attendance was down from years previous, the event was still a great success, said coordinator Peter Campbell. Cardinal O’Malley discusses past decisions, challenges ahead
BOSTON -- In his first five years as archbishop of Boston, Cardinal Seán P. O’Malley has faced many challenges and has often responded with creative decisions to deal with a wide variety of issues. In this excerpt from his Aug. 2 interview with The Pilot the cardinal was asked to reflect on the rationale behind some of those decisions and to elaborate on his key objectives for the future of the archdiocese.Priests reflect on past five years at annual cookout
More than 120 priests and seminarians gathered at Brighton’s St. John’s Seminary on Aug. 6 for a holy hour on the Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord. During the cookout that followed five priests individually reflected upon the cardinal’s first five years leading the Boston See.The holy hour and cookout is an annual event scheduled to fall near the Feast of St. John Vianney, the Curé d’Ars and the patron saint of parish priests. Cardinal Archbishop Seán P. O’Malley, who was scheduled to preside, could not attend the event because his flight from the Knights of Columbus convention in Quebec City was cancelled. Local News
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Pilot editorial: With humility and retrospectionFather Richard M. Erikson: Reflections upon Cardinal Seán’s fifth anniversarySister Janet Eisner, SND: A leader through word and exampleFather William Kelly: Revealing the priestly heart of JesusScot Landry: The RebuilderBarbara Thorp: The cross, the only sure path to healingDale O’Leary: A courageous defender of the truth about the human person Clark Booth: A midsummer foursome
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