Before the Civil War, caring for the dead was seen as “women’s work.” With the advent of modern mortuary techniques, men came to dominate the industry. That is slowly changing.
Rather than ask “How old are you now?” we’re wondering what she’s wishing for as she blows out candles at the House of Bishops meeting in North Carolina.
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The episode identifies a key weakness in the bishops’ charter: neither the bishops’ auditors nor the review boards have the power to subpoena witnesses or compel a diocese to turn over files. “They can only review the information they’re given,” said Diane Knight, chairwoman of the National Review Board, the advisory and accountability committee appointed by the bishops. “It is startling and discouraging that after all of the work that has gone into the charter, to have this kind of a grand jury report come out is troubling at best.”
Our blessed Lord has not committed his goods to us as a dead stock, to be hoarded up, or to lie unprofitably in our own hands. He expects that we shall put them out to proper and beneficial uses, and raise them to an advanced value by doing good with them, as often as we have opportunity of laying them out upon the real interest and welfare of his poor children and subjects.