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• Ho Ho Holy Discount: Vatican tax-free store busy
• Who needs church?
• Who's filling America's church pews
• Church leaders in Newtown receive ovations

Ho Ho Holy Discount: Vatican tax-free store busy Posted: 23 Dec 2012 11:41 AM PST Anyone left on your Christmas list just aching for a 65-inch Samsung 3D flat-screen television? Just your luck. The Vatican's duty-free department store has one on sale for €2,899 ($3,840) — a nifty savings ...

Who needs church? Posted: 23 Dec 2012 11:32 AM PST Churches come in all shapes and sizes – a white-steepled Colonial nestled among Vermont maples; a cherub-packed basilica commanding a Roman boulevard; a megacampus hard by the interstate. A church can even spring up in a defunct Pizza Hut.

Who's filling America's church pews Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:51 AM PST On a snowy 20-degree day in December, the visitors shiver as they move among vestiges of a long-closed Pizza Hut on this city's struggling main street. A salad bar teeters off kilter. Dust collects on the dismantled facade of a soda dispenser. A few bolted-down tables and chairs remain – usable, but only after a good cleaning.

Church leaders in Newtown receive ovations Posted: 23 Dec 2012 08:51 AM PST NEWTOWN, Conn. (AP) — Church leaders in Newtown are receiving standing ovations from parishioners they are helping to cope with the massacre at an elementary school.

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