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IMAGE: CNS photo/Tanya Connor, The Catholic Free PressBy Tanya ConnorWORCESTER, Mass. (CNS) -- Thecongregation, numbering about 50, gathered for their last Easter Mass together onthe DCU Center's arenafloor.The chaplain, Father George "Jerry"Hogan, borrowed one of their colorful boxes to use as an altar. Thealtar cloths and his chasuble sported circus images. Costume designers had sewnpieces of old elephant blankets together to make his stole.The backdrop suggested thereason for such an unusual liturgical environment: The Ringling Bros. andBarnum & Bailey Circus had come to town to offer shows on Good Friday, HolySaturday and Easter Sunday.But it isn't all "fun and games"for performers and other circus workers, some of whom attended the Mass before theEaster shows. While "they've always performed during Holy Week," they arenow going through the paschal mystery themselves, Father Hogan told TheCatholic Free Press, newspaper of the Diocese of Worcester.The Ringling circus was near...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump "has no intention" of releasing his taxes returns to the public, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said Wednesday, asserting Americans have "plenty of information" about the president's financial matters....
BLANCHESTER, Ohio (AP) -- A man with mental health problems kidnapped a neighbor and kept her trapped in a small grave-like pit in his backyard shed, where her cries for help alerted other people living nearby and led to her rescue, police said....
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Dee Young remembers April 29, 1992, the way most Americans of a certain age recall Sept. 11 - it's indelibly etched in his memory as the day his world and that of thousands of others changed forever....
NEW YORK (AP) -- A startling new report asserts that the first known Americans arrived much, much earlier than scientists thought - more than 100,000 years ago -- and maybe they were Neanderthals....
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) -- Fearing a return to violent protests that roiled campuses in the 1970s, colleges and universities are re-examining how to protect free speech while keeping students and employees safe in a time of political polarization....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The conservative House Freedom Caucus announced its support Wednesday for a newly revised GOP health care bill, a month after the group's opposition forced Republican leaders to pull the legislation in an embarrassing retreat....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump proposed dramatic cuts in corporate and personal taxes Wednesday in an overhaul his administration asserts will spur national economic growth and bring jobs and prosperity to America's middle class. But his ambitious plan is alarming lawmakers who worry it will balloon federal deficits....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Trump administration hosted senators for an extraordinary White House briefing Wednesday at a perilous moment with North Korea, marked by the unpredictable nation's nuclear threats and stern talk of military action, if necessary, from the United States....
(Vatican Radio) Pope Francis had special greetings for Polish pilgrims at the weekly General Audience on Wednesday, during which the Holy Father recalled the celebration of the feast of St. Adalbert, one of the Patrons of Poland.Born in the 10th century, St. Adalbert was the bishop of Prague, and a missionary to the Baltic peoples, who received martyrdom for his efforts to bring them the gospel."This past Sunday," said Pope Francis, "on the feast of Divine Mercy, we also commemorated St. Adalbert, Patron of Poland: it was also an occasion to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the institution of the Primatial See at Gniezno. To the protection of this great Bishop and Martyr [St. Adalbert], who carried the gospel message and the witness of Christian life into yuor lands, I entrust all the pastors and the faithful of the Church in Poland."The Holy Father went on to say, "Keep your spiritual and cultural tradition alive for future generations, for that traditi...
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