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...Paul Dufault intercepts a pass in the neutral zone, but his shot is blocked and lands up here in the press box (no fatalities...
...shaken us to our cores. Now, more than ever, we should not overlook the fact that morbidity from depression and related problems, such as eating disorders, silently pervades our community. Indeed, according to my recent conversations with University Health Services and Bureau of Study Counsel counselors and Dr. Paul Barreira, Director of Behavioral Health & Academic Counseling, depression on campus is far more common than one would expect. The stigma of mental illness, though unfounded, remains a major obstacle for many who could benefit from the ample mental health services on campus. According to a 2006 senior thesis studying the state...
...Vatican rule: candidates for sainthood wait five years beyond their deaths before the Catholic Church begins its investigation of their "heroic virtue," the first step toward canonization. Only two figures in recent history have received a fast-track exemption: Mother Teresa and Pope John Paul II, both of them superstars in the Catholic and wider popular firmament. So, when the Vatican recently added Sister Lucia dos Santos, who died in 2005 at age 97, to this list, many wondered why she had been put in that esteemed company...
...Virgin Mary appeared in 1917 in the Portuguese parish of Fatima. And, as Vatican Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone makes clear in his upcoming book, The Last Secret of Fatima (May, Doubleday) she was the key human figure in a drama that eventually transformed the very nature of John Paul II's image of himself, and of his papacy. Lucia's superstar days may have waned in the memory of post-Vatican II American Catholics, but for people like Bertone and Pope Benedict XVI, who made the journey with the late John Paul, she remains an important symbol...
That changed with the 1981 near-assassination of John Paul II by a Turkish gunman. According to The Last Secret, it was while in the hospital recuperating from a bullet that had improbably bypassed his most vital organs that John Paul first asked to be shown Lucia's third secret, and in it read these words: "We saw... a Bishop dressed in white," who reminded the children of "the Holy Father... killed by group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows...