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  • Portland Press Herald, Maine

    EDITORIAL: Portland's new bishop has an opportunity to turn new leaf

    May 12—In February, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Robert Deeley and appointed the Rev. James T. Ruggieri the 13th bishop of the Diocese of Portland, an ecclesiastical district covering all of Maine and more than 275,000 people of the Catholic faith. Ruggieri, 56 and from Rhode Island, was installed last week during a two-hour ceremony at the Cathedral of the Immaculate ...

  • Portland Press Herald, Maine

    EDITORIAL: Getting into college is tough enough

    May 12—If you can't determine how much college is going to cost you, how can you reasonably plan to go to college? It's a question plaguing many young Mainers right now. The federal legislation that led to the chaos ongoing in federal student aid applications, was named, remarkably, the FAFSA Simplification Act. We know now that it has done anything but simplify the Free Application for ...