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05Aug08 FORT POLK, La. - Soldiers everywhere live by a time-honored piece of advice: shoot back at those shooting at you. Now try to imagine how a Soldier would function if he is forbidden to shoot back. Such a dilemma is ...
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10July 2008 WICHITA , Kan. — If Helen Kapaun had known that her brother-in-law might one day be canonized, she would have paid more attention to what he had to say on her wedding day. Helen married Eugene Kapaun in Octo...
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Samuel Huntington is one of a group of "big-picture" authors, including Niall Ferguson, Philip Jenkins and Francis Fukuyama, who help us to understand the seismic, global, geopolitical changes taking place in this century....
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It’s the summer of 2007, and several soldiers are gathered around a Bradley fighting vehicle History of honor Perhaps the most celebrated account of selfless service in the U.S. military chaplaincy occurred in Worl...
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Vatican City, Jun 13, 2008 / 05:50 pm (CNA).- Today as President Bush and Pope Benedict XVI met at the Vatican, the English newspaper, The Telegraph reported that Bush may be considering converting to Catholicism at the end of his presidential term. The T...
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28June2008 MECHANICSBURG, Pa. (NNS) -- The Navy Postal Director announced June 26 guidelines and upcoming deadlines for absentee ballot mailing. Following these guidelines and deadlines will ensure all Sailors at overseas locations and aboard deployed shi...
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19June08 WASHINGTON - President Bush presented the Presidential Medal of Freedom to retired Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace during a White House ceremony today. Bush honored Pace with the highest civilian award the United States can bestow for a career tha...
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MOBILE, Ala. (CNS) -- "A General's Spiritual Journey" gives a rare glimpse into the mind, heart and soul of a battlefield warrior and faith-filled American hero, retired Lt. Gen. Hal Moore. It's a story of the courage, com...
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Two military chaplains based in Germany have been named recipients of top U.S. Air Force awards for 2007. Capt. Onyema Okorie, a Catholic priest at Geilenkirchen NATO Air Base, was chosen company grade chaplain of the year. The other recipient, Maj. Henry...
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San Jose, CA (06June08): Last month, Bishop Mar Bawai Soro and nearly 1,000 Assyrian Christian families were received into communion with the Chaldean Catholic Church in California. Bishop Bawai explained the process to CNA, and expressed his hope that ...
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Goal Is Reducing Veterans’ Suicides 22May08 WASHINGTON –Secretary of Veterans Affairs Dr. James B. Peake today announced the names of members appointed to two special panels that will make recommendations on ways the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA...
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14May07: "Service is something we emphasize at Reicher High School," Mark Waggoner, dean of students and athletic director was quick to stress. "We just want to turn out good people. "Our students are required to do a certain number of community service h...
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Two and a half weeks ago, President George W. Bush spoke at the 5th Annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast. Presented here is the full transcript of his speech: THE PRESIDENT: Thank you for the gracious welcome. Austin, thanks for your kind introducti...
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Los Angeles- Based Organization Looks to Re-supply Troops Spiritually. Contact: Tom Serafin, Apostolate for Holy Relics, 818-416-9279 LOS ANGELES, April 25 /Christian Newswire/ -- With US troops deployed around the world on a variety of missions, America...
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15April2008, Chicago: Pope Benedict XVI will be visiting the United States from April 15-20th in the midst of the most historic and hotly contested presidential electoral campaign in decades. Although cultural exports from the largely secular media would ...
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Bogota (CNA)- (April 2008): The Colombian daily "El Tiempo" revealed on Holy Saturday that a crisis that could have ended in an open conflict between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela was averted by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe confiding the situation t...
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Washington DC, Mar 27, 2008 (CNA): George Weigel, a Catholic scholar and biographer of Pope John Paul II, in a recent interview with National Review Online addressed Pope Benedict XVI’s Easter vigil baptism of Magdi Allam, a prominent Italian journali...
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April 2008 (CNA): There is news from the Vatican that the number of Islamic faithful in the world has surpassed the number of practicing Catholics for he first time in history. According to the Vatican yearbook of statistics, the number of the world’s ...
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31March2008 WASHINGTON - Six New Hampshire volunteers committed to making sure deployed troops get the sendoffs and homecomings found themselves on the receiving end of the thanks they regularly extend -- from the commander in chief himself and others on ...
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01March2008, Washington, DC: For a soldier, sleeping in a humvee or in a tent in the desert is not conducive to a lifestyle that includes frequenting the sacraments, let alone learning about the Faith. Even when it is available not many are attending, sa...
