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Long or short "o"?

Karl Rahner's brother Hugo said that Karl's work needed to be translated into German to be understood, despite the fact that it was written in German in the first place.

I get fewer and fewer chances to be a n00b. I must cherish them when they arise.

Thank you all!

No. One hopes they got there on the way to Heaven.

On the night of April 14, 2001, I entered into full Communion with the Catholic Church. The ensuing 25 years have been ... interesting, but never boring, and I've never regretted it.

I'm sure it is.

Yup. And I have to request a mandate from the diocese to confirm them.

The bishop doesn't have to give permission, except for those baptized as Catholics who never completed their sacraments of initiation: Can. 883 The following possess the faculty of administering confirmation by the law itself: ... 2/ as regards the person in question, the presbyter who by virtue of ...

Highlander wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 10:25 pm How would one go about getting an "accurate" count?

AFAIK, there's no official place where every diocese must report. You could could diocesan FB pages and such, but that won't get them all either.

Divination, but that's sinful

Where does he find these hundreds of new Catholics?

anawim wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 7:31 pm

Obi-Wan Kenobi wrote: ↑Sun Apr 12, 2026 7:19 pm The bigger oddity is why it's 59 instead of 60.

Because you would then be starting your 61st. year of life?

RIght, but my question is why the law is written that way. Why is the switch point the 59th birthday rather than the 60th?

Also above my pay grade is the reason that Duluth was listed twice.

The answer to that is above my pay grade

The bigger oddity is why it's 59 instead of 60.

But that can't be right. The Newman Center at the University of Illinois had well over 100 on its own, and there were large numbers over the rest of the Peoria diocese as well. Maybe we didn't report.

Here it is sorted: Los Angeles- 8598 Atlanta – 3442 Galveston – 3000 Dallas – 2500 San Diego- 1846 Washington 1755 Newark – 1701 Diocese of Phoenix – 1600 Portland – 1600 Fort Worth 1550 Detroit – 1400 St Augustine – 1263 Brooklyn – 1200 Baltomore – 1200 Oklahoma- 1100 Philadelphia -1100 Cincinatti ...

It's not too late to seek professional help.

Classic blunders!