Religion
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Pope gets away from Vatican to work on correcting 'defects'Feb 21, 2015 10:00 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) - Pope Francis is getting away from the Vatican for a few days and taking his advisers along, to work, as he put it, on fixing the " many defects we al...
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Woodlands Academy's Lenten service project aims to start music program at African schoolFeb 19, 2015 10:00 pm - Traditionally, the Ash Wednesday liturgy at Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart marks the start of a major service project. This Lent, students at the all-girls colle...
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Vatican pension fund insists finances are in decent shapeFeb 19, 2015 10:00 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican's pension fund insisted Friday that it's in decent financial health, issuing its first ever public accounting to try to dispel what it ca...
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Commuters receive ashes to go at Arlington Heights Metra stationFeb 18, 2015 12:00 am - Coffee, check. Newspaper, check. Ashes, check. Commuters at the Arlington Heights Metra station on Ash Wednesday morning had the opportunity to receive "ashes to go" on ...
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Images: Ash Wednesday in the SuburbsFeb 18, 2015 12:00 am - Ash Wednesday got off to a cold start, Wednesday morning. Suburban clergy were out early at Metra train stations this morning giving ashes to commuters as they headed to...
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Inmates, guards mark Ash Wednesday at Lake County jailFeb 18, 2015 12:00 am - Faith brought together inmates and correctional officers at the Lake County jail on Wednesday as members of both groups marked Ash Wednesday behind the facility's locked...
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Ash Wednesday service comes to CODFeb 18, 2015 12:00 am - Eighty-seven students and faculty members attended a brief Ash Wednesday service in the College of DuPage Student Resource Center to mark the start of Lent. Deacon Matt...
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'Ashes to Go' mark Ash Wednesday at Geneva train stationFeb 18, 2015 12:00 am - Battling frigid temperatures Wednesday morning, a few brave souls from St. Charles Episcopal Church were offering "Ashes to Go" at the Geneva commuter station. For the...
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Pope walks in Ash Wednesday procession between Rome churchesFeb 17, 2015 10:00 pm - ROME (AP) - Pope Francis walked in a solemn Ash Wednesday procession between churches on Rome's ancient Aventine Hill, calling on people to humbly remember their human l...
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Gay Catholics get Vatican welcome, but no papal shout-outFeb 17, 2015 10:00 pm - VATICAN CITY (AP) - The Vatican did something it has never done before by giving a group of U.S. gay and lesbian Catholics VIP seats at Pope Francis' weekly general audi...