Program aims to ease Catholic pastors' workload

Sunday, May 22, 2005

ST. LOUIS -- A Catholic graduate school has chosen more than two dozen Missouri and Illinois parishes to take part in a new program that trains lay people to assume some duties typically handled by priests.

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