Area Catholics mark 1531 &#39;la Virgen&#39; vision
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The faithful gathered Sunday at St. Theodore Catholic Church to walk through the streets in honor of Our Lady of Guadalupe. &quot;Today is a great day in our homeland of Mexico,&quot; Maria Jimenez of Gonzales said in Spanish.
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With the nation's highest court set to open a new session, members of Washington's legal community gather Sunday to seek spiritual guidance for justice in the annual celebration of the Catholic Church's Red Mass.
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A growing religious movement sees potential to shift a blue state's hue.
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By Jennifer Amy Myers, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Feb. 27--BILLERICA -- What has already been a 15-year road to build a  temple on the banks of the Concord River promises to be even longer.
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Mexico City is preparing to legalize abortion -- the first region to do so in heavily Roman Catholic Mexico -- a move the influential church has vowed to challenge.
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Pope Benedict XVI celebrates Mass for 30,000 people at the 850-year-old shrine of Mariazell in Austria.
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Parishioners in Newton planned to join the growing number of Catholic communities that have occupied their churches in protest of their planned closure, while such demonstrations continued at two other Boston-area parishes.
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SAN SALVADOR -- It wasn't exactly traditional, but it got to the heart of the holiday.
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ATICAN CITY, OCT. 25, 2004 .- John Paul II promoted the path to unity between Anglicans and Catholics, when he received some 80 pilgrims of the Anglican diocese of Rochester.
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It's one thing to embark on a 34-mile walking pilgrimage as a show of faith. When nearly 300 people turn out despite a tropical storm in the forecast, perhaps that's an even stronger demonstration.
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The Catholic shrine of Lourdes yesterday opened a special bank account and appealed for donations from the faithful after it emerged that last weekend&#39;s visit by the Pope had left it with a 1.2m (£812,000) deficit.
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Showing the kind of toughness that breeds late-season success, Xaverian took a big step toward a Catholic Conference title with a 25-7 win over Catholic Memorial yesterday. With the artificial turf at Catholic Memorial covered in snow, Xaverian turned to its ground game to keep the chains and the clock moving once it claimed the lead.
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Couple granted audience with Benedict XVI in St Peter's Square
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Pope Benedict XVI praised marriage between a man and a woman as part of God&#039;s &quot;loving plan,&quot; defending the traditional family Sunday at a Mass in Spain attended by hundreds of thousands.
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By DOUG SIMPSON LAKE CHARLES, La. - Hundreds gathered Sunday for a church service to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Rita, a year that Gov. Kathleen Blanco called &quot;the longest year of our lives.&quot;&quot;Where there was devastation, there is reconstruction.
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VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II on Sunday moved five Catholics closer to sainthood, including Austria's last reigning emperor and a German nun whose graphic visions of Christ's suffering helped inspire the blockbuster movie "The Passion of the Christ."   Cheers went up in St. Peter's Square from a crowd of about 30,000 people when the pontiff finished reading the Latin words with which he beatified the five candidates, and banners with their images were unfurled on the facade of St...
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Pope John Paul has traveled to Italy&#39;s Adriatic coast northeast of Rome to beatify two devout Italians and a Spaniard who lived and died in the 20th century, placing them on the road to sainthood in the Roman Catholic Church.