Cardinal James Hickey Dies at 84
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, head of  the Roman Catholic church in Washington, D.C., for 20 years,  died on Sunday, the city's regional church body said. He was  84.
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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah  - The head of the Mormon church, Gordon B. Hinckley, died on Sunday at the age of 97, church officials said.
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Ken Kennedy, a pioneer in computer science whose work can be seen in today's supercomputers and video games, has died in Houston at 61.  Kennedy taught at Rice University, where he founded the computer science department in 1984.
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Former Massachusetts Lt. Gov. Edward F. McLaughlin Jr., who became close friends with President John F. Kennedy while the two served together in the Navy during World War II, has died. He was 84.
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Cardinal James A. Hickey, former archbishop of Washington, who led the Roman Catholic Church in the nation's capital for two decades, died Sunday. He was 84.
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Belgian Cardinal Gustaaf Joos, who derided lesbians and gays as "sexual perverts," died Tuesday, local church officials said. He was 81.
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Cleveland Cavaliers assistant coach Mark Osowski has died after he was stricken with pancreatitis. He was 41. He died Sunday while hospitalized at the Cleveland Clinic, the NBA team said Monday.
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As a Catholic, Vince Haley often went to Mass at the College of William and Mary's historic Wren Chapel when he was an undergraduate in the 1980s. Also a Catholic, school President Gene R. Nichol often goes to the 120-seat chapel alone at night to think in the quiet.
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Juan Francisco Fresno, the cardinal who played a key role in efforts to restore democracy in Chile during the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet, has died, Roman Catholic Church authorities said. He was 90.
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Mormon Church president Gordon Hinckley died in Salt Lake City, Utah, late Saturday at the age of 97, church officials said.
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Former priest James Porter, whose widespread molestation of dozens of children foreshadowed the clergy sex abuse scandal that swept the Roman Catholic church, died Friday.
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Gordon B. Hinckley, the longest-serving president of the Mormon church who presided over one of the greatest periods of expansion in its history, died Sunday
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Angelo Giuliani, who was behind the plate for Joe DiMaggio's first at-bat in the majors and went on to sign Kent Hrbek as a Minnesota Twins scout, died at 91.
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The Vatican has raised the age of a Polish cardinal to 81 &#151; making him ineligible to vote in a conclave for a pope &#151; after he acknowledged lying about his age during World War II to escape being sent to a German labor camp.
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The Rev. D. James Kennedy, a pioneering Christian broadcaster and megachurch pastor whose fiercely conservative worldview helped fuel the rise of the religious right in American politics, died Wednesday. He was 76.
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Gordon Hinckley, the longtime head of the Mormon Church who died Sunday, had much to do with moving Mormonism closer to the mainstream
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John Deardourff, a pioneering political consultant who specialized in working for moderate Republican candidates, including former President Ford, died of cancer Friday at his suburban McLean, Va., home. He was 61.