Features
: Religion & Spirituality
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April 17th, 2008
Covering Pope Benedict's visit to the United States Yankee Pope
Constantly Alert
"Praying fervently for the coming of the Kingdom ... |
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April 11th, 2008
Seekers find salvation in New Age capital of America
Yvonne Draper came to Sedona to kill herself. With a ruptured disc in her back, a hip that slid out of the socket, knees and ankles that ... |
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March 30th, 2008
Controversial Catholic youth minister Justin Fatica is tough and bruised, but soft-hearted, and few dispute he has a knack for reaching troubled kids The children who show up for Kids ALIVE in Burlington's Old North End number between 40 and 50, and most range in age from about 8 to 16. Many ... |
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March 27th, 2008
A fourteen-year-old girl—
on tip-toe in the attic—
saw the huge horse-chestnut,
Westerkerk tower, and the random
flight of gulls. "Our tree
is in full ... |
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March 25th, 2008
A pilgrimage to Flannery O’Connor's Georgia home
You’ll find her along the fence line of Memory Hill Cemetery, to the left. The grave sits in a family plot. There are Treanors and Clines—relations of her mother’s—and ... |
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March 21st, 2008
Dark, noisy and nearly forgotten, a 20-something makes a case for reviving Tenebrae It is the great peculiarity of the Church of Rome, that it presents to its worshipers an extraordinary variety of services, each of which has a special significance and ... |
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March 19th, 2008
Holy Thursday
and the washing
of the feet Holy Thursday begins what has been traditionally called the Sacred Triduum in Holy Week. It is the time in the Church's calendar in which we liturgically commemorate the Passion, ... |
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March 17th, 2008
Seen and Hurd in the Holy Land A few weeks ago, I stood in the sacred spot where John the Baptist baptized Jesus. The Baptism site is in Jordan and I was in-country for a week ... |
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March 14th, 2008
An American nun sees the Iraqi refugee crisis up close
Shame and sorrow—those were the two words Sister Anne Curtis uses to describe how she felt after meeting face-to-face with Iraqi refugees. "The feelings were very intense," ... |
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March 13th, 2008
Searching for the "right place" For years I felt a gap between my parents and me—a gap of time and geography. When they were young, their social lives revolved around church; few of my ... |


