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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...unflinchingly progressive, favoring abortion, gay rights, equal opportunity for women, and pacifism. They praise everyone from Buddhists to Baptists, and admit to liberal borrowing from many faiths. They don't believe in heaven or hell, don't perform the Hajj pilgrimage, and don't face Mecca when they pray. God, they like to say, resides in people, not in mountains or stones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Prayer and Politics, but No Orgy | 5/5/2008 | See Source »

...credit a lot of your success to your relationship with your parents. Do you use the same techniques with your children? -Warren Sharp OKINAWA, JAPANI try. I said to my mother, I pray to God that I'm half as successful with my children as my parents have been. For any parent, to sit back and see your kids really enjoying each other, understanding each other, accepting who they are, is a huge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Maria Shriver | 5/1/2008 | See Source »

Still, every Pope has his favorite saints. Benedict's leans most of all toward St. Augustine, the fourth-century philosopher Father of the Church, whom he regularly cites in his homilies. Last year, Benedict made a pilgrimage to Pavia to pray at Augustine's relics there. And he is not excluding other sites of miracles from his future journeys. In September, Benedict is slated to visit Lourdes, the French town where millions of sick and disabled Catholics go each year to seek healing from a spring revealed by the Virgin Mary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Padre Pio, Pope Benedict: Soul Mates? | 4/25/2008 | See Source »

...walk the final 35 yards. Amidst all the surrounding concrete and work equipment, he looked particularly slight of build in simple, but heavy white papal vestments for the cold morning. His normally brisk walk was even brisker than usual, seemingly eager to arrive before the pascal candle to pray. Silently he knelt down, and remained on his knees, eyes open, but otherwise lost in his prayer for more than two minutes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope Prays at Ground Zero | 4/20/2008 | See Source »

...messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth." Key to all this is prayer itself, which can even address the nagging vocations shortage in America by allowing a would-be priest to know that it is his destiny. "If they know how to pray, they can be trusted to know what to do with God's call...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Pope Faces His US Flock | 4/16/2008 | See Source »

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