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Cleanup comes slowly in devastated Chilean towns
3/11/2010
Cleanup is beginning in towns on Chile's central
coast as electricity and telephone service is slowly restored and
people try to rebuild their lives after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake
killed nearly 800 people and caused millions of dollars in damage.
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Pope: Priests must promote confession, show God's mercy
3/11/2010
Priests today are challenged with the task of
drawing the faithful back to confession and assuring them that their
true repentance will be met with mercy and compassion, Pope Benedict
XVI said.
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Pope appeals for end to violence in Nigeria
3/10/2010
Violence does not resolve problems, but only
multiplies the tragic consequences of tensions between different
groups, Pope Benedict XVI said as he appealed for an end to violence in
Nigeria.
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God renews, does not reinvent church, pope says
3/10/2010
The Second Vatican Council's renewal of the Catholic
Church was a sign of progress, not a sign of repudiating the past, Pope
Benedict XVI said.
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Homilies should be under eight minutes
3/10/2010
Homilies should be no longer than eight minutes -- a listener's average attention span, said the head of the synod office.
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Church coordinates aid, gives condolences to quake victims
3/04/2010
As Chile’s Catholic Church coordinated aid to
victims of the massive earthquake that struck the country’s central
coast on Feb. 27, church leaders expressed their condolences to
families of the more than 700 people killed.
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From Holy Spirit to team spirit
3/04/2010
It was a weekend of hard-earned wins for Team USA.
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Olympic prodigy trades skates for sandals of Franciscan sister
2/23/2010
n the silence of St Joseph's Convent in Leeds each
morning, Sr. Catherine dresses herself in a gray habit. She fixes a
black veil on her head and fastens to her waist a cord tied into three
knots -- representing the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity and
obedience -- and she slips her feet into the sandals of a Franciscan
nun.
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