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The United States has congratulated Ukraine's new national Orthodox Church on its autonomy from Russia, a move that has incensed Moscow and further heightened tensions between Russia and Ukraine. In a statement on December 17, the U.S. State Department said it sent its congratulations to the new.... |
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By Barbara Meyer. Just after Easter 1998 I spent three weeks in the Solomon Islands and I visited two Bougainvillean refugee camps or "care centers" in different provinces. I went in response to a call by the president of the Bougainville Interim Government (the BIG), Frances Ona, for an outsider to.... |
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On the surface, Father James Poole seemed like the cool priest in Nome, Alaska. He founded a Catholic mission radio station that broadcast his Jesuit sermons alongside contemporary pop hits. A 1978 story in People magazine called Poole "Western Alaska's Hippest DJ . Comin' at Ya with Rock'n'Roll 'n' Religion. |
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Like so many other Catholic priests around the country, Poole's inappropriate conduct with young girls was well-known to his superiors. A Jesuit supervisor once warned a church official that Poole "has a fixation on sex; an obsession; some sort of mental aberration that makes him see sex everywhere. |
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In a year filled with heightened political vitriol, two deaths brought the nation together to remember men who represented a seemingly bygone era of U.S. politics. George H.W. Bush was a president, vice president, congressman, CIA director and Navy pilot during World War II, where he flew 58 missions and was shot down over the Pacific. |
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We are into the season that most of us anxiously awaited. Belief in the birth of Christ, in fact, of Christianity, does not seem to matter these days. It is for most, simply a season of the year, celebrated by Christians and non-Christians. December 25 has nothing to do with the actual birth date of.... |
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Celebrate the holidays by planning trips to the best Christmas light displays in the greater Jacksonville area and all of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. Located at the Morocco Shrine Center, spectators are treated to a drive-thru holiday light display that features.... |
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Gardaí are appealing for information following the theft of a bronze sculpture from a site in Co Sligo where WB Yeats is buried. The sculpture was stolen from the car park adjacent to Drumcliffe cemetery over the weekend, and is part of a larger piece depicting a man contemplating the words of Yeats’ poem He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven. |
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George H.W. Bush George H.W. Bush, a patrician New Englander whose presidency soared with the coalition victory over Iraq in Kuwait, but then plummeted in the throes of a weak economy that led voters to turn him out of office after a single term, died Nov. 30, 2018. |
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Bush died in in November at age 94, just months after the death of his wife, former first lady Barbara Bush, who died in April. McCain died in August at the age of 81 after a battle with brain cancer. Their deaths prompted an outpouring of public mourning from across the political spectrum that was.... |
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By EMILY SCHWING, AARON SANKIN and MICHAEL COREY of Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting On the surface, Father James Poole seemed like the cool priest in Nome, Alaska. He founded a Catholic mission radio station that broadcast his Jesuit sermons alongside contemporary pop hits. |
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