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Anger is one of the stages of grief
I spent the last few weeks consumed with anger. Some people may not understand being angry at someone who died. But if there is one thing I’ve decided to do during the grieving process, it’s to acc...

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Associated Press
A woman prays next to the tomb of Kateri Tekakwitha on the Kahnawake reserve near Montreal on Sunday. Pope Benedict XVI canonized seven people, Kateri Tekakwitha, Maria del Carmen, Pedro Calungsod, Jacques Berthieu, Giovanni Battista Piamarta, Mother Marianne Cope, and Anna Shaeffer.

‘Lily of the Mohawks’ first Native American saint
LOS ANGELES — In the 17th century, she was known as Lily of the Mohawks, a Catholic convert scarred by smallpox and ostracized by her tribe but unshaken in her faith. Now she is known as St. Cat...

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Church Calendar
Items for the Church Calendar must be received by email by noon Tuesdays to news@paducahsun.com. Put Church Calendar in the subject line and include the name, address, date and time of event. No ha...

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Associated Press
Rabbi Lynn Goldstein demonstrates the sound of a shofar, a horn used for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, at the Moses Montefiore Temple in Bloomington, Ill. Goldstein, who has been a rabbi for more than 25 years, serving congregations in 14 locations, including St. Louis, New York and Miami, accepted the position as the first female rabbi in the Bloomington congregation's 100-plus-year history.

Temple gets new rabbi
BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — When Rabbi Lynn Goldstein was driving from St. Louis for an interview at Moses Montefiore Temple in Bloomington, she kept asking herself why she was doing it. She’s been a ra...

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McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The Church of the Resurrection in Blue Springs, a suburb of Kansas City, Mo., began in 2010.

Church’s size is impressive, but that’s not where it focuses
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — There are about 40 inmates in all, every one sporting a blue shirt. They’ve been filing slowly into a stuffy room under harsh fluorescent lighting in the basement of the Lansing ...

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Churches seek to reclaim the religiously unaffiliated
ST. LOUIS — On a recent Wednesday night, Patrick Foran spent his evening with one of the country’s most prominent humanists, even as churches throughout the area would have rolled out the red carpe...

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Some tornado-damaged Joplin churches to reopen this month
JOPLIN, Mo. — Jim Hemphill remembers the way the First Community Church looked right after the tornado in May 2011. “There was no debris in the building,” he said. “The tornado sucked it all out...

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Native Americans begin celebrating first of their own to be canonized
ROME — The Roman Catholic Church began final preparations Wednesday for what will be a watershed event in the church’s relationship with Native American cultures, the canonization of Kateri Tekakwi...

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Associated Press
Mother Marianne Cope dedicated her life to caring for exiled leprosy patients on Kalaupapa in Hawaii. Mother Marianne gave her life to caring for Hawaii's leprosy patients, outcasts that others stayed away from at the time out of fear they might contract the disfiguring disease.

2 American women to be elevated to sainthood
HONOLULU — In life, Mother Marianne Cope was known for her strength and kindness, battling bureaucrats in Hawaii as she led a group of fellow Franciscan nuns to care for leprosy patients in the isl...

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