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Peter Steinfels has stimulated a most interesting discussion on this at the Commonweal blog<\/a>. Some monk has also chimed in, I see.<\/p>\n

One or the other reader of PrayTell<\/em> has questioned why we\u00a0cover larger church issues, including scandals, on this liturgical blog. The editorial committee talked it through and agreed that the liturgy doesn’t really have much significance if it ignores what’s going on in the church and the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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