Saving lives along the border

The Samaritans are part of a broad network of organizations working in the Sonoran Desert to save as many immigrants as they can, and to find the bodies of those they can’t

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Massachusetts parish contributes to Smithsonian exhibit

St Paul’s in Newburyport, MA, the oldest continuing Episcopal parish in the state, recently donated items to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History that tell the story of how the American Revolution affected everyday people in their religious lives.

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Fireworks

We giggle to hear, behind us, a small child narrate the colours of the fireworks exploding overhead into flowers and fountains. He is rooting for the green ones.

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Pope taps liberal archbishop to succeed conservative cardinal as head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, a conservative theologian, is nearing the end of his five year mandate as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which is the department supposed to defend the Catholic doctrine. The Vatican has released a brief statement that Müller’s mandate will not be renewed, and instead, his deputy, Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, who is more liberal.

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