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The alleged killer of Bishop David OConnell, who was found dead from a single gunshot wound, is handyman Carlos Medina Vallejo, 61, the husband of the bishops housekeeper

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Next year will mark the 40th anniversary of the U.S. bishops landmark pastoral letter The Challenge of Peace: Gods Promise and Our Response. Then, the two superpower nations, the United States and the Soviet Union, held each other in check in the nuclear age as in a high-stakes chess match, with most nations, and the billions of the worlds inhabitants, merely pawns. Today there is no more Soviet Union, as its affiliated states reclaimed their independence in the 1990

The US bishops landmark pastoral letter remains relevant in todays world still mired in conflict and nuclear threat

"We didn’t lose our language. We didn’t lose our culture. So don’t talk like we did. We’re stronger for all of this,” says Charlene Belleau, one of Canadas leading figures on residential schools

Read / Add Comments He’d walked his daughter down the aisle just the day before when beloved Hackensack funeral director Tom Gentile died suddenly this weekend, friends and loved ones said. “After a day of celebration, it is with heavy hearts that our family regretfully needs to announce that our patriarch, G. Thomas Gentile…passed away this morning,” the family announced Sunday. He was 72. Gaetano Gentile, a father of three, dedicated his life to helping people at one of ...