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Do ntilde a Teresa de Ahumada y Cepeda who became simply Teresa de Jes uacute s following her midlife conversion had a personality so large and intriguing that it is no surprise that a novelist has chosen this Spanish Carmelite as a character around whom to weave a fictionalized story Yet histori
It is one of the most vivid and reassuring images in the Scriptures: the Word of God compared to the rain and snow that give life to the earth:
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
Pope Congratulates President-Elect Barack Obama Pope Benedict XVI sent a personal message to President-elect Barack Obama on Nov. 5, congratulating him and offering his prayers for Obama and for all the people of the United States. Federico Lombardi, S.J., the Vatican spokesman, said that because th