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(Permanent Musical Accompaniment To The Last Post Of The Week From The Blog s Favourite Living Canadian)
It looks as though there is reactionary mischief throughout our institutions these days. As the
National Catholic Reportertells us, it s poisoning the life out in the parishes, too. Book-burning is, I admit, a bit of a flashback.
Fr. Matthew Codd, the then-pastor at St. Elizabeth s, was joined by a group of seminarians who went through the church s theology library and removed books deemed heretical, including those of spiritual writers Henri Nouwen and Thomas Merton. The books were later burned, she was told by a parish staff member. Lichtmann, a retired religious studies professor at Appalachian State University, left the region in part, she told NCR, because of the changes in the parish. She now lives in Georgia. I felt it was a lost cause, she said about St. Elizabeth.