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About time. The\u00a0apostolic nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Pietro Sambi, has told the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops that it\u2019s high time Catholics get serious about evangelizing.\u00a0 Of course this can mean many things, and the reasons why the Catholic Church in America is floundering in terms of evangelism are legion, for they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2805,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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