2009年8月28日星期五

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Yahoo! News: Religion News


Top officer says US bungling Muslim outreach (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 04:30 PM PDT

Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaks to the 91st annual national convention of the American Legion Tuesday, Aug, 25, 2009 at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Brian Bohannon)AP - The U.S. military is bungling its outreach to the Muslim world and squandering good will by failing to live up to its promises, the nation's highest-ranking military officer wrote Friday.


Kennedy had strong links to Mass. funeral church (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 02:16 PM PDT

A television camera is trained on the facade of Our Lady of Perpetual Help Basilica in Boston Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009 where the funeral of U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., will take place Saturday. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, last surviving brother in an American political dynasty and one of the most influential senators in history, died at his home on Cape Cod after a year-long struggle with brain cancer. (AP Photo/Elise Amendola)AP - The spires of The Basilica of Our Lady of Perpetual Help tower above Mission Hill, one of Boston's most culturally diverse neighborhoods, an area filled with the very kinds of people whose causes Sen. Edward Kennedy championed for nearly half a century in the Senate.


Kennedy's Catholicism source of comfort, conflict (AP)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 08:38 AM PDT

FILE - In this Nov. 11, 1958 file photo, Edward M. Kennedy, and Joan Bennett, kneel on altar and receive communion from Francis Cardinal Spellman, Archbishop of New York at the nuptial mass at St. Joesph's Roman Catholic Church in Bronxville, N.Y. Kennedy, the liberal lion of the Senate, has died after battling a brain tumor. He was 77.  Kennedy's family announced his death in a brief statement released early Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009. (AP Photo, File)AP - Sen. Edward Kennedy was raised from birth to cherish his Catholicism, and it became both a source of comfort and conflict throughout his life.


Ted Kennedy's Quiet Catholic Faith (Time.com)

Posted: 28 Aug 2009 06:10 AM PDT

FILE -- In this Oct. 7, 1972 file photo, then Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., levels charges at the Nixon administration in Indianapolis during an outdoors rally. Kennedy cited a campaign slush fund, the Soviet Grain deal, the Watergate affair, and others in his 'corrupation' charge.  (AP Photo/File)Time.com - Ted Kennedy's Quiet Catholic Faith


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