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Pets In Church
- For the first time in 10 years, Mary Wilkinson went to church one
Sunday in January. She sat in a back pew at St. Francis Episcopal Church
in Stamford, Conn., flipping through a prayer book and listening intently
to the priest's sermon.
- What drew Ms. Wilkinson back into the fold was a new monthly program
the church introduced -- Holy Communion for pets. As part of the service,
the 59-year-old retired portfolio manager carried her 17-year-old tiger cat
to the altar, waited in line behind three panting dogs to receive the host
and had a special benediction performed for her cat, Purr Box Jr. "I like
that the other parishioners are animal people," Ms. Wilkinson sa
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