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...releases from both Cara and Scott, and the DeBoers' joy was complete. They were now Jessica's legal custodians, and in six more months, the adoption would be finalized. Cara wrote them a letter: "I know you will treasure her and surround her with love," she told them. "God Bless and Keep...
...some advocates of change, however, the key to reform is dropping the 870-year-old tradition of priestly celibacy. "If someone really has a true call to a celibate vocation, God bless it," says Eugene Bianchi, an ex-Jesuit priest who currently teaches religion at Emory University. "But I think those kinds of persons are far fewer than the priests we have." Mandatory celibacy, Bianchi contends, encourages sexual immorality, which is symptomatic of larger structural problems in what he calls a "monarchical, absolutist" church: "The celibate clerical system is collapsing, and it is not going to be regenerated...
...child, drove all the way from Ann Arbor to claim their new baby. Soon after returning home, they received a letter from Cara that read, "I know you will treasure her and surround her with love, support her, encourage her to dream, to reach for the stars . . . God bless...
...additional 45 minutes pass, then shouts erupt. Necks crane toward a small, bright cloud that has formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
...People stop and talk to me," he said. "Theywish me Merry Christmas and say `God bless...