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By ( articles ) | Jun 26, 2007

The Church of England has turned to Homer Simpson for help with recruiting teenagers.

Clergy are to be advised to set up screens in churches to play extracts from the beer-swilling cartoon character's life.

I am not making this up. I'm not that cynical.

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Thu19 June
Ordinary Time

Thursday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Romuald, Abbot

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Romuald (951-1027) who was born in Ravenna of a noble family. He was the founder of the Camaldolese monks—one of the Italian branches of the Benedictines—in which the eremitical life is combined with life in community. He died in 1027, after a life of…

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