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This Lent: Pray, Fast, and Watch Movies
Welcome to Lent. It's a time that brings out, as one young priest told me, all the A&P Catholics. Ashes and palms.
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Five Lessons From the Holy Cross Crusader Victory
The Holy Cross trustees' decision to keep Crusader as the college's mascot and nickname is a major victory for those who care about history, culture, and Christian identity. You can tell that by the muted reaction it's getting in the mainstream media. Had it gone
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Holy Cross: Crusaders Still
The College of the Holy Cross in Worcester will keep Crusader as its mascot and nickname. The board of trustees decided to keep it Saturday, two and a half years after a drive began to get rid of it.
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How To Be Happy Without Living Your Dreams
My 16-year-old son is an achiever in a variety of fields. Near-perfect PSAT score, soccer goalkeeper, state champion debater, chess whiz … So, I bought him a book for Christmas. Right away, the author outlines some of the goals.
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Topless Feminist Attacks Christmas Creche at Vatican
An extremist feminist group has claimed responsibility for a Christmas Day attack on a nativity at Vatican City by a topless woman. The woman, wearing only black pants and shoes, dashed toward the crèche yelling "God is woman," which she also had emblazoned on her back, according to
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Cardinal Law Dies
Updated 12/20 4:45 p.m. Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the retired archbishop of Boston who resigned at the height of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal, has died in Rome.
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Six Good Things About Cardinal Law
Let's stipulate that Cardinal Bernard Francis Law was the worst bishop of Boston in the 209 years of the diocese. The clergy sex abuse scandal mangled the lives of children and their families, shook the faith of devoted Catholics, prevented would-be converts from joining, cost an amazing amount
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Cardinal Law Said To Be At Death’s Door
Cardinal Bernard Law, the long-serving archbishop of Boston who resigned under pressure during the height of the clergy-sex-abuse scandal, is "facing his final illness" at a hospital in Rome, according to a well-connected Vatican journalist. Rocco Palma, who runs the web site Whispers in the Loggia, reported that
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