A Family Cursed by a Mother Headed for Sainthood
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Marco Bellocchio's expansive, memorable film floats and plummets like a box kite in a storm on drafts of melodrama, mysticism and humor.
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The sight of a sobbing orphan stranded in a landscape of death and disaster moves people deeply.
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HALIFAX (CP) - The vast devastation of Asia's tsunami is stirring painful memories for Margaret Saint - memories of the day she and her family were swept out to sea after a tidal wave slammed into Newfoundland.
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The 18th-Century German nun whose violent, mystical visions of Jews were the source of several controversial scenes in Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ" is about to move a step closer to sainthood, ...
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A terminally ill woman's religious fast unto death in northern India causes controversy.
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Pope John Paul, looking tired and speaking with difficulty, put five Catholics on the road to sainthood Sunday, including the 19th century German mystic nun who inspired Mel Gibson&#39;s film on Christ&#39;s passion.
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ZAGREB, Croatia, Feb 3 (IPS) - What the Dupor family had hoped would be the final  solution to their problem turned into their worst nightmare.
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On the eve of the second anniversary of the death of 7-year-old Nixzmary Brown, a new report finds that higher caseloads have overwhelmed Family Court, where abuse and neglect cases are decided.
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Michael Murphy's quietly disturbing play reveals the dubious role that Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the Archbishop of Boston, played in a tragedy that irreparably damaged hundreds of families.
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NAIROBI, Kenya -- Sister Leonella, a nun who devoted her life to helping the sick in Africa, used to joke that there was a bullet with her name engraved on it in Somalia. When the bullet came, she used her last breaths to forgive those responsible.
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A Romanian football team have asked a witch to see if they are cursed because of the bad results they had lately.
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It's a crime so monstrous as to surpass comprehension. Yet its passion takes root in some of the most tender ground of human experience: pregnancy and motherhood.
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A bereaved mother injected a friend's baby with insulin because she was jealous of her healthy child.
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Religion isnât easy, but itâs rarely looked tougher than it does in this intimate and disturbing film.
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The reports coming out of central Kansas over the weekend seem beyond grisly, as if from a horror movie: A woman kills an expectant mother, rips a baby girl from the victim&#39;s abdomen, then shows off the child to friends, neighbors and a pastor as her own.
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By Carla McClain, The Arizona Daily Star, Tucson  Feb. 18--For eons, humans have been fascinated and mystified by the cord that ties a mother to her unborn baby.
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The Hell family has protested to a Catholic school in Australia after it objected to enrolling their son because of his name.