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On Feb. 2, the feast of the Presentation of the Lord, Bishop James Conley of the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, celebrated a ...

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Think of all the daily offices where monks hear liturgies and pray for people they’ve never met, perhaps lumping people into categories — car mechanics, out-of-work gardeners, law students who flunked ...