French priest's mission is in a bar
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Only a small cross on his lapel differentiates Jerome de la Rouliere from the other customers drinking in a bar in the center of Poitiers.
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The Roman Catholic Church on Monday began the sainthood procedure for a Vietnamese cardinal who was imprisoned by the communists for some 13 years.
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A sick man among the sick, Pope John Paul II struggled through Sunday Mass at a French shrine that draws desperate people seeking miracle cures. The 84-year-old pontiff gasped, trembled and asked aides for help during the 2 1/2 hour service in sizzling heat.
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Poles wanting to raise a glass to the pope during his visit needed to stock up beforehand. Predominantly Catholic Poland banned the sale of beer, wine and liquor in some parts of the country during Pope Benedict XVI&#039;s four-day visit.
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As politicians throughout the European Union struggle with overhauling the continent's underperforming economy, they might find one answer over a drink at a bar tended by 36-year-old Solange Gellai.
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy met with Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday and said he was âpersonally movedâ by his first audience with the pontiff.
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LOURDES, France - A frail Pope John Paul II celebrated an open-air Mass on Sunday as several hundred thousand pilgrims, many in wheelchairs, crowded onto a field near a French shrine to the Virgin Mary that is associated with miraculous cures of the sick.    The Mass was a highlight of the Pope's two-day visit to Lourdes, a town in the Pyrenees where Roman Catholic tradition says St...
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POCZERNIN, Poland -- This wind-swept village is bracing for an invasion of demons, thanks to a priest who believes he can defeat Satan.
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The Catholic Church in Austria is investigating a  priest amid allegations he sexually abused children.
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Wine is less a beverage than an elixir of life in France, but the country's vintners say they're vexed by a problem that threatens their livelihood &#151; too much of a good thing and not enough people drinking it.
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SIR ALEX FERGUSON painted an interesting picture yesterday. It was a scene full of bonhomie, set in the bar of a sumptuous Swiss hotel, where two ageing men, a ruddy Scot and a pale Frenchman
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A tiny French drinks maker is enjoying new fame as the maker of an ingredient in James Bond's trademark cocktail.
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The priest has had many accusers, but now only one whose case is in court.
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BEIJING, Sept. 21 -- The Rev. Joseph Li Shan, a 42-year-old priest based in downtown Beijing, was ordained as the head of the Beijing Diocese of the state-sanctioned Catholic church Friday morning in a private ceremony. The appointment underscores attempts to improve long-strained relations between...
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Two days ago, before he would add another chapter to his legendary tale, Hicham El Guerrouj received a message from a friend in France.
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Dennis King preaches in a converted blues bar to motorcycle riders and others who like his brand of everyone-is-welcome worship.
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A priest who continued saying Mass while the body of a man who died of a heart attack during the service was still on the church floor defended himself on Thursday, saying that is what he would have wanted.