A valuable mix of stories.   Good to read of the 12 mile march in San Francisco that drew thousands - especially good to read of something positive associated with ++Cordileone.  The Vermont plan to celebrate a "Year of Creation" to recognize the importance of protecting our ecology - is a good example of what a diocese can do to bring alive Laudato Si.  

We continue to face closing parishes, people have left the faith, stopped practicing faith as it was practiced in the past (Sunday Mass, confession, the sacraments).  We need a new model of faith being lived.  Maybe something will come from the Libby Foundation grant to St. Meinrad Seminary:  "Lilly Endowment Inc. launched the $19.4 million initiative to help religious leaders reach young adults and work with them to create new ministries."

The story of the young gay man who was not allowed to sing at his grandmother's funeral, is, well, another story of creating a larger scandal while trying to avoid "scandal." Sad, unkind, unChris