Peter Feuerherd

The Field Hospital: More than 50 residents at an Amityville retirement community ask Bishop John Barres to "make every effort to advance" the proposal to end obligatory priestly celibacy.

The Field Hospital: Parish closures continue; an AIDS memorial slated to go; renovations in Green Bay, Wisconsin; Pittsburgh appeals the Vatican to keep parishes open; Arise in Milwaukee gets the young adults

The Field Hospital: "Personal" parishes for every taste are on the increase; Montana reservations got predatory priests; church in a struggling Kansas town; South Carolina Catholics.

The Field Hospital: Participants from groups such as Catholic Church Reform International and Call to Action will be urging an increased role for the laity in the church. 

The Field Hospital: The "Midvale Diocese" shared an intense transition discussion meeting where leaders worked out mergers and other changes, so others could learn from the process.

The Field Hospital: Refugees welcomed in Toledo and St. Paul; religious sister presides at a wedding; Raleigh closes its overflowing cathedral; tragedy ends carnival rides.

The Field Hospital: Saturday vigil Masses at Our Lady of the Assumption in Charlotte are a sign of the wider church in the U.S.: an aging Anglo population, replenished by Latino immigrants making parishes their own.