It's pretty favorable to us, especially the first half. I think it's sort of funny how they buried the Diocesan blather in the second half of the article, after people have already stopped reading and formulated their opinion.
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THE revival tent was pitched amid the cabbage fields that surround the Church of Our Lady of Pompeii, and as the bishop waited outside in the dying light, preparing to say a sunset Mass, he leaned on his crosier, a wooden staff shaped like a shepherd's crook. Some restive members of his flock stood a few yards off, aiming their Hail Marys at him.
It's dated July 6th and it's only now the 5th. Cool.They have seen a fair amount of each other lately: Bishop Joseph A. Galante, leader of 500,000 Roman Catholics in the Diocese of Camden, and the protesters who track his public schedule, turning up with signs and prayers. They hope to persuade him to change his mind about closing their parishes as part of the consolidation plan he announced in April, among the most sweeping ever proposed by an American diocese.
Read it here.