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In All Things
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
Cambridge MA I spent a bit of time on this quiet Saturday rearranging books in the vain hope that by moving them around and to hitherto unnoticed corners and book-case bottoms I might find more space For the rule is sure if the graduate student spends a lot of time accumulating books with an
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BARCLELONA Hundreds of young Catholics who had gathered to celebrate Pope Benedict s arrival in the Catalan capital tonight with candles and songs were rewarded with a three-minute papal blessing from the Archbishop s balcony They chanted s iacute s iacute s iacute el Papa ya est aacute aq
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BARCELONA Over on the other side of Spain speaking in the Plaza del Obradoiro outside the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela Pope Benedict has issued a bracing and often lyrical call for Europe to see faith as our guiding star in the night of time From this place as a messenger of the Gosp
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Pope Benedict has just enjoyed one of the great spectacles of European Catholicism -- the swinging of the giant incense-burner of Santiago de Compostela cathedral known as the botafumeiro roughly smoke-launcher Five feet high weighing 60 kilos and reaching speeds of 40 miles an hour as it s
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BARCELONA After kissing the relics of St James the Pope in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela has just finished a speech in which he recalled the proper meaning of pilgrimage and spoke of the inseparability of freedom and truth Both speak to concerns of the Spanish Church The popularity o