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This is the last in a seven-part series on the Mass. The Communion procession is over, the remaining Eucharist is reserved in the tabernacle, the vessels are put away and the Communion music is finished. What next?

After nearly five years working as an assistant to Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski in the office of the eastern vicar, Sister Constance “Connie” Gilder, S.S.J., is taking on a new role as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s delegate to religious.

A funeral mass for Father Ralph Ransom Jr., S.S.J, was offered June 12 at St. Joseph Manor, Baltimore. Father Ransom, who was 76, spent most of his priestly life in southeast Texas, but began it as associate pastor of St. Peter Claver in Baltimore. He died June 7 at St. Joseph Manor.

VATICAN CITY – This summer’s once-a-decade Lambeth Conference marks a potentially defining moment for the worldwide Anglican Communion and a time of reckoning for ecumenical dialogue.

After nearly five years working as an assistant to Bishop Mitchell T. Rozanski in the office of the eastern vicar, Sister Constance “Connie” Gilder, S.S.J., is taking on a new role as Archbishop Edwin F. O’Brien’s delegate to religious.

A funeral Mass for Sister Mary Anne O’Connor, S.S.N.D., was offered June 12 in the chapel at Villa Notre Dame in Wilton, Conn. Sister Mary Anne died June 7; she was 89.

LONDON – A proposed law to regulate religion in Kazakhstan could force the expulsion of Catholic missionaries and the closure of churches, a Catholic archbishop said.