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• Pope says Church should rid itself of 'worldliness'
• NC church mourns victims of fiery Tenn. bus crash
• Pope trip to St. Francis' town highlights goals
• Youths burn church, riot in Kenya's Mombasa after imam killed
• Pope tells bickering couples not to go to bed angry
• Four dead, church torched in Kenya riots after Muslim cleric killed
• Poland's church will not pay child sex victims
• Kenya rioters torch church after Muslim cleric killed
• Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity
• Pope in Assisi, following footsteps of St. Francis
• U.S. Catholics back Pope Francis on changing church's focus
• Pope follows in footsteps of namesake St. Francis during visit to Assisi
• Latest Myanmar violence blamed on religious and ethnic extremists
• Pope follows footsteps of namesake St. Francis

Pope says Church should rid itself of 'worldliness' Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:30 PM PDT ASSISI (Italy) (AFP) - Pope Francis on Friday called for the Catholic Church and its faithful to rid themselves of earthly concerns like St Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage to the saint's Italian hometown.

NC church mourns victims of fiery Tenn. bus crash Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:57 AM PDT STATESVILLE, N.C. (AP) — He was the oldest victim in the fiery crash of a church bus in Tennessee, but Cloyce Matheny was truly young at heart.

Pope trip to St. Francis' town highlights goals Posted: 04 Oct 2013 10:12 AM PDT ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis broke bread with the poor and embraced the disabled on a pilgrimage to his namesake's hometown Friday, urging the faithful to follow the example of the 13th-century St. Francis, who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and service to the poor.

Youths burn church, riot in Kenya's Mombasa after imam killed Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:34 AM PDT By Joseph Akwiri MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Young Muslims set fire to a church, burned tires and clashed with police in Kenya's main port city of Mombasa on Friday, leaving at least four people dead after the killing of an Islamic cleric which his followers blamed on security forces. The shooting of Sheikh Ibrahim Omar ignited religious tensions in the commercial and tourism hub, two weeks after Islamist militants killed at least 67 people in a raid on a Nairobi shopping mall. The imam and three other men were found dead in a car on Mombasa's outskirts on Thursday night, police said. ...

Pope tells bickering couples not to go to bed angry Posted: 04 Oct 2013 09:32 AM PDT Assisi (Italy) (AFP) - Pope Francis on Friday advised married couples not to go to bed angry "even if the plates fly" in a light-hearted address during a pilgrimage to the sites associated with St Francis of Assisi.

Four dead, church torched in Kenya riots after Muslim cleric killed Posted: 04 Oct 2013 08:57 AM PDT Mombasa (Kenya) (AFP) - Four rioters died and a church was torched amid gunfire Friday, as police in Kenya's port city of Mombasa quashed protests sparked by the killing of a Muslim cleric.

Poland's church will not pay child sex victims Posted: 04 Oct 2013 07:39 AM PDT Poland's Catholic Church says it will not pay compensation to victims of priests who sexually abused children. The Rev. Jozef Kloch said in comments aired by Polish Radio 1 on Friday that the responsibility ...

Kenya rioters torch church after Muslim cleric killed Posted: 04 Oct 2013 06:49 AM PDT Mombasa (Kenya) (AFP) - Rioters set fire to a church in Kenya's port city of Mombasa Friday, in furious battles with the police sparked by the killing of a Muslim cleric, police said.

Pope, in Assisi, calls on Church to shun vanity Posted: 04 Oct 2013 05:09 AM PDT By Philip Pullella ASSISI, Italy (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic Church, from the lowliest priest to the pontiff himself, must strip itself of all "vanity, arrogance and pride" and humbly serve the poorest members of society, Pope Francis said on Friday. The pope's appeal, made in the central Italian hill town of Assisi where his namesake Saint Francis lived in the 12th century, comes amid a drive by Francis to turn around a Church plagued by financial and sexual abuse scandals. Saint Francis is revered by Catholics and many other Christians for his simplicity, poverty and love of nature. ...

Pope in Assisi, following footsteps of St. Francis Posted: 04 Oct 2013 04:28 AM PDT ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis made a pilgrimage Friday to the hillside Italian town of Assisi, following in the footsteps of his namesake, St. Francis, the 13th-century friar who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and service to the poor.

U.S. Catholics back Pope Francis on changing church's focus Posted: 04 Oct 2013 03:29 AM PDT By Mary Wisniewski CHICAGO (Reuters) - Pope Francis' comments that the Catholic Church should not focus so much on homosexuality, abortion and contraception have met with strong approval from U.S. Catholics, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Friday. Sixty-eight percent of American Catholics agree with comments the Pope made to that effect in an interview published last month in the Jesuit magazine Civilta Cattolica, while 23 percent disagreed, according to the poll. ...

Pope follows in footsteps of namesake St. Francis during visit to Assisi Posted: 04 Oct 2013 02:39 AM PDT ASSISI, Italy - Pope Francis made a pilgrimage Friday to the hillside town of Assisi and the tomb of his namesake, St. Francis, the 13th-century friar who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and minister to the most destitute. St. Francis was famously told by God to "repair my house."

Latest Myanmar violence blamed on religious and ethnic extremists Posted: 04 Oct 2013 12:32 AM PDT By Jared Ferrie THANDWE, Myanmar (Reuters) - The Buddhist mob mutilated and burned Khin Naing so severely his son couldn't recognise the body, one of series of attacks that suggest a resurgence of a monk-led movement in Myanmar accused of stoking violence against Muslims. Flies were buzzing around the bloodied patch of earth outside a ransacked mosque in Tha Phyu Chai village where police removed Khin Naing's body after he was hacked to death by ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. ...

Pope follows footsteps of namesake St. Francis Posted: 03 Oct 2013 11:48 PM PDT ASSISI, Italy (AP) — Pope Francis made a pilgrimage Friday to the hillside town of Assisi and the tomb of his namesake, St. Francis, the 13th-century friar who renounced a wealthy, dissolute lifestyle to embrace a life of poverty and minister to the most destitute. St. Francis was famously told by God to "repair my house."

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