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Pastor of liberal parish blames transfer on Rome.(pastor of Corpus Christi Parish, Texas, James Callan transferred because of church practices)

From: National Catholic Reporter  |  Date: 8/28/1998  |  Author: Jones, Arthur

A pastor of a liberal parish is being transferred because he involved the church in activities that were not deemed Catholic. The staff and members of the church will stay and try to maintain the traditions initiated by the departing pastor.

It was no ordinary announcement of a transfer of a popular pastor. In 22 years Fr. James Callan, 50, has seen Corpus Christi Parish grow from a church about to close to a church from which an energetic Christian community of several thousand reaches ...

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