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High School Lacrosse: Simsbury Boys Look To Get Back To Championship Game
The Hartford CourantThe boys and girls lacrosse state tournaments get underway next week and here is a look at some of the first-round story lines: The Simsbury boys (13-3) drew the No. 2 seed in the Class L bracket looking to make their first championship game appearance...Tags: Lacrosse, Religion and Belief, Sports, Christianity
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Boy Scouts' vote to allow openly gay members, but not leaders, ending century long ban
The Boy Scouts of America approved a historic policy shift Thursday, allowing gay youths as members for the first time in the organization's 100-year history. The vote by 1,400 members of the Scouts' executive committee stops short, however, of...
Tags: DeSales University, Ted Cruz, Gays and Lesbians, Boy Scouts of America, Jesus Christ
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Catholic order to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 claiming sex abuse
ReutersNEW YORK (Reuters) - An order of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 adults who said they were sexually abused as children by religious leaders, the parties announced on Thursday in separate statements. The...Tags: Bankruptcy, Francis I, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Catholic order to pay $16.5 mln to more than 400 claiming sex abuse
ReutersNEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - An order of the Roman Catholic Church has agreed to pay $16.5 million to more than 400 adults who said they were sexually abused as children by religious leaders, the parties announced on Thursday in separate statements....Tags: Bankruptcy, Francis I, Roman Catholic Sex Abuse Scandal, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Henrietta "Hank" Heppler
Henrietta “Hank” Heppler, 78 of Lead, SD passed away on Tuesday, May 21, 2013 at the Lead-Deadwood Regional Hospital. Hank was born on September 1, 1934 to Edward and Elizabeth (Lingmann) Heppler on a farm near Zell, SD. She was raised in...
Tags: Western Medicines, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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CIAC State Boys Lacrosse Seedings, Schedule
Seedings and schedule for the state high school boys lacrosse tournament as annonced by the CIAC on Thursday: CLASS L Top four seeds: Ridgefield, Simsbury, Staples-Westport, Farifield Prep Teams in the field: 16 Qualifying Round – Saturday,...
Tags: New Milford, Ridgefield, Rocky Hill, West Haven, Lacrosse
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Vote on gay Scouts comes at emotional moment
GRAPEVINE, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America's national leadership will vote Thursday on whether to allow openly gay Scouts in its ranks, a critical and emotionally charged moment for one of the nation's oldest youth organizations and its...
Tags: Boy Scouts of America, Minority Groups, Religion and Belief, Voting, Christianity
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Pope, Salvador president, discuss beatification of slain archbishop
ReutersVATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The president of El Salvador met Pope Francis on Thursday to urge his fellow Latin American to put Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was murdered by a right-wing death squad in 1980, on the road to Roman Catholic sainthood. The...Tags: Francis I, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Mauricio Funes, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Joseph J. Kilzer, 1927-2013
A tool and die maker for 40 years, Joseph J. Kilzer served as a school board president and president of his union local before retiring with his wife to Green Lake, Wis., and training to become a hospice volunteer. "I could never understand how he could...
Tags: Science and Technology, Religion and Belief, Christianity
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Illinois business urges federal court to lift contraception mandate
Lawyers for two Roman Catholic-owned companies in Illinois and Indiana argued before the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago on Wednesday that a law forcing them to include birth control in their employees' benefits would violate their First...
Tags: Lawyers, Punishment, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Belief and Faith, Career and Workplace
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Barbershop chorus concert is just the thing for spring
Chorus of the Chesapeake presents spring show May 11, Students from Calvert Hall College High School and Notre Dame Preparatory School team up for Operation Clean Stream, David "Shepherd" Warren, named a 2013 Carson Scholar, J.C. Lazzaro selected 3rd...Tags: Colleges and Universities, Polynesia, Rivers, Religion and Belief, Financial Aid
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Mandating birth-control benefits unlawful, appeals court told
Tribune reporterLawyers for two Roman Catholic-owned companies in Illinois and Indiana argued before the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday that a law forcing them to include birth control in their employees' benefits would violate their First Amendment rights....Tags: Lawyers, Punishment, American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois, Belief and Faith, Career and Workplace
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