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• Berlusconi allies work to patch up church ties (AP)
• Excerpts of Kennedy letter to pope and response (AP)
• Despite rain, Kennedy mourners flock to church (AP)

Berlusconi allies work to patch up church ties (AP) Posted: 30 Aug 2009 09:08 AM PDT AP - Allies of the Italian government have pledged to patch up ties with the Catholic church, after a newspaper in Premier Silvio Berlusconi's media family attacked a Catholic editor who had demanded he answer allegations in a sex scandal over young women.

Excerpts of Kennedy letter to pope and response (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 08:01 PM PDT AP - Excerpts of the letter from Sen. Edward M. Kennedy that President Barack Obama delivered to Pope Benedict XVI earlier this year and an account of the pope's response, as read by Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick, archbishop emeritus of Washington:

Despite rain, Kennedy mourners flock to church (AP) Posted: 29 Aug 2009 06:49 PM PDT AP - Hundreds of mourners lined the sidewalks near Boston's Mission Church where a funeral Mass was held Saturday for Sen. Edward Kennedy, with some holding signs urging lawmakers to approve health care legislation in his honor, and other saying they just wanted to witness a moment in history.

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