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Contributed photo Students at Mid-Continent University celebrate Easter Week by carrying a 200-pound cross along U.S. 45 near the campus on a one-mile trek in Graves County. This is the third year for the tradition.
Bearing the cross
Contributed photo Students at Mid-Continent University celebrate Easter Week by carrying a 200-pound cross along U.S. 45 near the campus on a one-mile trek in Graves County. This is the third ye...
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Pope Francis names bishop successor
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina  — Pope Francis has made his first appointment of a bishop, naming Mario Poli on Thursday to succeed him as archbishop of Buenos Aires and the top churchman in Argentina. ...
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Associated Press Diogo Morcaldo (center), as Jesus, is baptized by Daniel Percival, as John, in a scene from "The Bible." The History network's first installment of the miniseries "The Bible" was seen by 13.1 million people on March 3. The series concludes Easter Sunday.
Seeing can be believing
If you’ve missed “The Bible,” airing on the History Channel, you’ve missed something worth watching. The miniseries, co-produced by Mark Burnett and Roma Downey, is well done. The premiere episode ...
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Associated Press Pope Francis washes the foot of an inmate Thursday at the juvenile detention center of Casal del Marmo, Rome. Francis washed the feet of a dozen inmates at a juvenile detention center in a Holy Thursday ritual that he celebrated for years as archbishop and is continuing now that he is pope.
Pope washes feet of young detainees
ROME — Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of a dozen inmates at a juvenile detention center in a Holy Thursday ritual that he celebrated for years as archbishop and is continuing now that he i...
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Maundy Thursday service offers meaningful symbolism
As I sat in a Maundy Thursday service one Easter season many years ago, facing the huge round stained glass image at the front of the church, my eyes were continually pulled to the picture. The ima...
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Church Calendar
Special services Evangelists Hardy and Marianne Brundage will speak at Pentecostal Tabernacle, 16235 U.S. 45 South in Water Valley, at the 10:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. services Sunday. Hardy Brundage...
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Selection of final resting place helps the healing
My grandmother is buried in a cemetery in San Antonio, Texas. My father at Rose Hills in Whittier, Calif. My daughter is placed in Mimosa Cemetery in Davidson, N.C. I never thought that is how w...
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McClatchy-Tribune News Service Roger Fields, head of KidzBlitz, has a BLITZ1 license plate on his SUV on March 11 near Nicholasville. KidzBlitz is an organization that runs shows that are a combination of childrens ministry/competitive game show with icky items such as a toilet paper bazooka.
Baptism by toilet paper bazooka
NICHOLASVILLE — Roger Fields did not start out in the ministry planning to illustrate biblical principles through projectile launching of toilet paper. He did not even start out to be in childre...
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Associated Press Sister Simone Campbell (right), executive director of Network, speaks in front of Renate Dellmann of Ames, Iowa (left), during a stop on the first day of a nine-state bus tour last year. Campbell, executive director of Network, a social justice lobby founded by nuns four decades ago, said it can make a big difference to have a pope who knows about life in religious orders.
Sisters receive support
VATICAN CITY  — The election of a Jesuit pope devoted to the poor and stressing a message of mercy rather than condemnation has brought a glimmer of hope to American nuns who have been the subject ...
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Church Calendar
Special services St. James C.M.E., 800 Tennessee St., will have a spring revival on March 20-22. Services will be at 7 p.m. each day. The guest speaker for all three services is evangelist Dew...
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