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Pope Francis has recognized the martyrdom of a bishop, seven Trappist monks and 11 other religious men and women killed by extremists in Algeria in the 1990s.
p class="Body">When it came time to interview prospective sailors for his expedition across Antarctica, Ernest Shackleton had clear-cut criteria. He had to pick the right men for his journey to the bottom of the world, a news-making attempt to be the first to cross the continent via the coldest place on Earth: the South Pole.
When I give to someone else the rare gift of genuine presence, I give them the essence of Christian compassion. Compassion calls us to suffer with someone, to enter into whatever it is that causes pain.
The Beacon newspaper, in partnership with the Maryland Federation of Art, invites seniors to submit artwork to a regional Celebration of the Arts competition this spring. The competition is part of a yearlong project intended to inspire readers to try a new means of self-expression through the arts.
A relationship with Mary, the mother of God, is not "optional" for Christians, Pope Francis said, because Jesus points to her as a source of protection and guidance.
In this adaptation of the third and final novel in James Dashner's sci-fi trilogy, the story of a band of teens and their fearless leader (Dylan O'Brien) fighting evil in post-apocalyptic world comes to a noisy and violent conclusion. The gang seeks to liberate their peers from tortuous experiments conducted by a wicked doctor (Patricia Clarkson) and her colleague (Kaya Scodelario), who seek a cure to a deadly virus that has decimated the population.
The plight of disgraced Olympic figure skater Tonya Harding (Margot Robbie) is presented as a coarsening, numbing fusillade of domestic abuse and cursing, occasionally broken up by ice skating routines that conform to the formula of a sports drama, and eventually the inept execution of a crime — the assault on Tonya's rival, Nancy Kerrigan, just before the 1994 Winter Olympics.
