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...until last weekend, the Harvard field hockey team had not scored six goals in a game in over five years. Yesterday, in its game against Saint Louis at Jordan Field, the Crimson (6-5, 2-1 Ivy) not only tallied six goals, it also kept the Billikens (4-8, 0-1 Atlantic 10) scoreless. Sophomore midfielder Chloe Keating, sophomore forward Leigh McCoy, and senior forward Tami Jafar notched two goals apiece while co-captain Kylie Stone and freshman goaltender Ana Roda combined for a shutout in a dominant 6-0 win. “We’re really coming...
...Pope Benedict XVI canonized four new saints to the Catholic liturgy: 19th-Century Italian priest Gaetano Errico; Mary Bernard (Verena) Bütler, a Swiss nun and missionary in Latin America who died in 1924; Alfonsa of the Immaculate Conception, a nun who who died in 1946 and is the first named female saint from India; and Narcisa de Jesús Martillo Morán, a pious laywoman from Ecuador who died in 1869. In the Catholic faith, only God can make a saint; these four are among those who "have emerged as individuals who can light...
Sadly, the album manages to get much worse than this. “The King of Hell” is shockingly bad, coming off as closer to “Flight of the Conchords” than Bob Dylan. “Saint Isabelle” also offers plenty of unwilling comedy. Its chorus, “I will always stand beside you, defend you and mend you, sanctify you,” might have seemed romantic in 13th-century France, but anyone born since then will recognize it as ridiculous...
...Night Falls,” which, along with “Saint Isabelle” is one of the few non-political songs on the album, could be a sweet ballad if its lyrics weren’t so generic and basic...
...special Mass on Thursday marking 50 years since Pius' death, Benedict praised his wartime predecessor's actions to save Jews and called on Catholics to "pray that the cause of his beatification goes forward smoothly." Beatification is the final step before canonization, when a Church figure becomes a saint. Thursday coincidentally was also Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish religious calendar...