Growing up in a Catholic family, Danny O’Rourke went to Mass regularly, but he didn’t understand why he had to. Soccer was a greater concern for him, and it continued to be so during his years at Indiana University. Now O’Rourke recognizes the Eucharist as the source of meaning and stability in a busy and confused world. He spoke with Register correspondent Trent Beattie as the MLS season was getting under way last month.

Ryan Galloway grew up in a devoted Baptist family from Sioux City, the grandson of a Christian missionary to Africa. Most of life revolved around the Protestant faith. Wednesday and Sunday at church. Summer church camp. Family vacations to see evangelist Billy Graham.

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In less than two days a group of friends at the University of Notre Dame have raised more than $7000 in memory of a much loved fellow student, 23-year-old Christopher Drake who lost his life in heavy seas off North Curl Curl beach last weekend.

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Violence against Christians in Indonesia continues with a number of new incidents occurring last week.

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Judges 4-5

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Archbishop Denis Hart has just announced that Dr Sr Mary Glowrey is to be declared a 'servant of God', the first step in being declared a saint. Archbishop Hart wrote:

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Annan, a Ghanaian former child slave and now a bank manager, has been nominated for the 2013 World Children Prize (WCP).

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American soldiers plucked the child from her Iraqi home at the height of the war and brought her to America for life-saving surgery. But how did she fare after her return to a war-torn nation struggling to stand on its own?

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STATEMENT FROM THE ARCHBISHOP OF SYDNEY CARDINAL GEORGE PELL ON ELECTION OF NEW HOLY FATHER

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Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan told the press outside Our Lady of Guadalupe parish in Rome that he is anxious for the conclave to begin and that he feels peaceful now that the start date is known.

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