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Scenes From A Parish

Season 10 Episode 9

At St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Lawrence, Massachusetts, the biblical prescriptive to "Love thy neighbor" is easier said than done when a wave of immigration unearths ethnic tensions that threaten to split the congregation.

Aired: 12/27/09
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