Religion
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The Latest: Organizers say 1.6 million at event with pope
Jul 30, 2016 7:00 am - KRAKOW, Poland (AP) - The Latest on the pope's visit to Poland (all times local): 9:54 p.m. Organizers of World Youth Day, a global Catholic celebration, say that 1.6 mi...
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Pope to young: Try politics, activism; don't be couch potato
Jul 30, 2016 7:00 am - BRZEGI, Poland (AP) - Pope Francis challenged hundreds of thousands of young people who gathered in a sprawling Polish meadow to reject being a "couch potato" who retrea...
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Fired music director's suit against Inverness church continuesJul 30, 2016 1:00 am - A fired music director's federal discrimination lawsuit against the Archdiocese of Chicago will continue after a judge on Friday rejected the church's procedural motion ...
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Fox Valley group asks Kane County to fund mental health programsJul 30, 2016 1:00 am - Members of a Kane County community organization asked elected leaders Saturday to fund programs that would divert people with mental illness from jail through a communit...
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Pope visits Auschwitz, begs God to forgive "so much cruelty"
Jul 29, 2016 7:00 am - OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Choosing silence to convey his sorrow, Pope Francis visited the former Nazi death factory at Auschwitz and Birkenau on Friday, meeting with conce...
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The Latest: Pope Francis: 'cruelty did not end in Auschwitz'
Jul 29, 2016 7:00 am - OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - The Latest on Pope Francis' visit to Poland (all times local): 10:05 p.m. A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, says an estimated 800,...
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Rabbi was behind meeting between pope, Polish rescuers
Jul 29, 2016 7:00 am - WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Pope Francis' visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau on Friday included an encounter with 25 Christian Poles who rescued Jews during the Holocaust - a powerfu...
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Pope Francis has arrived at Auschwitz, becoming 3rd pontiff to visit site of suffering
Jul 29, 2016 7:00 am - OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Pope Francis has arrived at Auschwitz, becoming 3rd pontiff to visit site of suffering. ...
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Pope writes in Auschwitz guest book: "Lord, have pity on your people. Lord, forgive so much cruelty."
Jul 29, 2016 7:00 am - OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Pope writes in Auschwitz guest book: "Lord, have pity on your people. Lord, forgive so much cruelty." ...
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3 popes at Auschwitz, 3 styles: What they said or didn't say
Jul 29, 2016 7:00 am - OSWIECIM, Poland (AP) - Pope Francis and his predecessors St. John Paul II and Benedict XVI each came to the memorial at the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camps in southern P...