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• Ex-Pope Benedict back at Vatican to live out retirement
• Police: NM man in church stabbing vandalized lodge
• Peres invites Pope Francis to Israel
• Man stabs 4 people at church in Albuquerque

Ex-Pope Benedict back at Vatican to live out retirement Posted: 02 May 2013 09:11 AM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Benedict XVI moved back to the Vatican on Thursday, opening an uncertain era in Catholic Church history where an "emeritus pope" and a ruling pontiff will live as neighbors for the first time. Benedict, the first pope to abdicate in 600 years, will live out his retirement in a restored convent in the Vatican gardens with a view of the dome of St. Peter's Basilica and just a short walk from the residence of his successor, Francis. ...

Police: NM man in church stabbing vandalized lodge Posted: 30 Apr 2013 01:49 PM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man charged with stabbing three people at an Albuquerque Catholic church because he thought a choir leader was a Mason vandalized a Masonic lodge hours before his attack, police said.

Peres invites Pope Francis to Israel Posted: 30 Apr 2013 05:26 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Israeli President Shimon Peres invited Pope Francis on Tuesday to visit Israel, at his first meeting with the new pontiff who has appealed for peace in the Middle East. "I am expecting you in Jerusalem, not just me but the whole country of Israel," Peres told the pope in the presence of reporters after 30 minutes of private talks in the Vatican's Apostolic Palace. Francis, the former Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina, made an appeal for peace between Israelis and Palestinians in his Easter address last month. ...

Man stabs 4 people at church in Albuquerque Posted: 28 Apr 2013 03:05 PM PDT ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Police say a man stabbed four people at a Catholic church in Albuquerque as a Sunday mass was nearing its end.

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