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Bishop McDonnell, who oversaw a consolidation of parishes in WMass, has died Original

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By Daniel Jackson, Larry Parnass Verified
| MassLive Verified
SPRINGFIELD — Bishop Timothy McDonnell, who oversaw the Diocese of Springfield amid the fallout of the priest sex-abuse scandal and a period of parish consolidation, died Thursday. He was 88. Bishop William Byrne, who announced his predecessor’s death, told a group of reporters that McDonnell was “a very effective shepherd and a blessing to the diocese” at a time when difficult decisions had to be made.
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Springfield pastor tapped for larger role in national denomination

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By Larry Parnass Verified
| Yahoo Verified
A Springfield pastor’s ties to the country’s largest African American Pentecostal religious denomination are both steeped in family history and new again. Deep because Bishop Talbert W. Swan II’s great-grandfather converted to the Church of God in Christ in 1911, ushered into the faith by its founder, Charles Harrison Mason. And new because the global church’s leadership this month named Swan the top official for roughly half of its 60 churches in Massachusetts.
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WMass institutions retreat from DEI pledges in Trump crackdown Original

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By Larry Parnass Verified
| MassLive Verified
On his first day as president in 2021, Joe Biden issued an order “advancing racial equity.” Last January, President Donald Trump called that goal an “immense public waste and shameful discrimination.” Whiplash continues over what constitutes racial justice in America. In the Pioneer Valley, some institutions that receive federal money pared away stated commitments to diversity in their hiring and operations.
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