Repost from 14 Feb, 2005 

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Snow storm again. The Catholic Church in Finland have started services once a month in my home town Porvoo. Pity I can’t go to their Holy Mass next Sunday, because I have to be elsewhere. I learned to know this, because a Catholic organisation, unknown to me, Respekt had chosen to quote an editorial of mine about ageing and death. Well, well … Timeline of the Catholic Church in Finland: 1522 last bishop before Reformation, Arvid Kurck dies, 1799 Catholic military chaplains sent to Finland from Russia, 1860 St. Henry’s Church built in Helsinki, 1923 Dutch Michael Buckx first bishop, 1955 Helsinki diocese established, 1989 Pope John Paul II visits Finland (I did the radio broadcast from the Mass in Helsinki (Old) Ice Stadium), 2001 present bishop, Polish Józef Wróbel installed. Later the same day, a Catholic person calls Wróbel ”a punishment sent upon Finnish Catholics” in a mail about totally other matters.