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Boston priest who ran center for abusers is laicized

August 24, 2010

The Boston archdiocese has announced the laicization of two priests, including one—Robert Beale—who once ran a residence for other clerics who had been accused of sexual abuse.

 

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Tuesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time; Opt. Mem. of St. Ephrem, Deacon and Doctor

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The Church celebrates the Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, Deacon (306-373), called "the Harp of the Holy Spirit." Ephrem is the great classic Doctor of the Syrian church. As deacon at Edessa, he vigorously combated the heresies of his time, and to do so more effectively wrote poems and hymns about the…

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