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• Pope marks end of difficult year, notes God's good
• Readers Write: Obamacare should keep religious exemption narrow. What has Obama done for Palestinians?
• The Lowest-Grossing Movie of 2012 Made $264 (and Starred Christian Slater)
• Bad news crowds out good, Pope says on New Year's Eve

Pope marks end of difficult year, notes God's good Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:42 AM PST VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI marked the end of a difficult year Monday by saying that despite all the death and injustice in the world, goodness prevails.

Readers Write: Obamacare should keep religious exemption narrow. What has Obama done for Palestinians? Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:30 AM PST Regarding The Monitor's View of Dec. 10, "Balancing health and faith": The Obama administration's religious exemption to the contraceptive mandate in the new health-care law was appropriately crafted to give only a narrow category of groups the right to deny their employees insurance coverage for contraception.

The Lowest-Grossing Movie of 2012 Made $264 (and Starred Christian Slater) Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:14 AM PST Judging from its trailer, the 2012 film Playback appears to be a small-town version of 2002's The Ring, wherein evil entities communicate and mess with people via television screens and cursed VHS tapes. Starring Christian Slater (to whom 2012 has not been kind at all), Playback cost $7.5 million to film and produce. But it only grossed $264 — that's two hundred and sixty four American dollars — making it the lowest-grossing film of 2012, according to various websites that track ticket sales. ...

Bad news crowds out good, Pope says on New Year's Eve Posted: 31 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Grim news grabs more headlines than good works but deeper probing will find a world of love and service hidden in the shadows, Pope Benedict said at his traditional end-of-year Mass on Monday. The 85-year-old pope, marking the eighth New Year's Eve of his pontificate, celebrated the Vespers and "Te Deum" Mass of thanksgiving in St. Peter's Basilica, during which he urged the faithful to take a step back from negativity in the media. ...

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