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...been able to read past the first line all morning. Her hands shook. She had been worrying the hem of her dress with what remained of her fingernails.The cause of her distress was no mystery. Each morning, for five days, she had found an excuse to visit the stables. And each morning, upon her arrival, she found her husband Frederick already there, discussing details of the upcoming harvest with The Stable Boy. The fact that she could not ascribe these coincidences to anything more than bad luck did not improve Felicity’s mood.And what was worse...
...Orleans who works with local churches to help organize the post-Katrina rebuilding. "Twenty minutes out on this lawn in the heat does not suffice," she said, after McCain held a press availability in the Lower Ninth Ward on Thursday. Like some others, she said she thought McCain's visit to the neighborhood, which included two military trucks for carrying photographers to capture McCain as he walked through, was overly focused on the national media, not the actual community. "What we saw was a designated seating area for the traveling press," she said, adding that there were no seats initially...
Some may even note a snub of sorts. John Paul visited San Giovanni Rotondo in 1987 to mark 100 years since Padre Pio's birth. But Benedict is making his second papal visit to the Puglia region in June, and has left the town off his itinerary both times...
...followers display is not excluded in the Ratzinger recipe for spreading the gospel. Indeed such open-hearted faith, and saint worship itself, is intrinsic to the Pope's message. He wrote of saints in his last encyclical, Spe Salvi or "Saved by Hope." In his recently completed visit to the United States, the saints were the focus of his talk to young people and seminarians in Yonkers, New York. "Fix your gaze on our saints. The diversity of their experience of God's presence prompts us to discover anew the breadth and depth of Christianity," Benedict said. "Let your imaginations...
...Ahmadinejad's plane to make refueling stop on a flight home from Sri Lanka. The Indian government, which has of late been remedying its prolonged neglect of the West Asian region, pounced on the opportunity to host the Iranian President. Turning the six-hour stopover into an official visit, the government hoped, would also smooth the ruffled feathers of its leftist coalition partners, who have accused the government of betraying old friends like Iran and pandering to the U.S. ever since India voted at the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2005 to refer Iran's nuclear program...