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February 14, 2014

It’s Valentine’s Day and National Marriage Week: Celebrating the joy of love

    “Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.”--Saint Augustine   Happy Valentine's Day!! Today much of the world celebrates romantic love. It is a day marked by the delivery of expensive flowers, extravagant chocolates and candy, pricy greetings cards, and reservations at packed restaurants with
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Pope to engaged couples: After ‘I do,’ comes ‘may I, thank you, sorry’

Greeting engaged couples on the feast of St. Valentine, Pope Francis told them not to be afraid of building a loving relationship.
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Massachusetts abbey now producing only Trappist ale outside Europe

Spencer Trappist Ale, brewed at the Spencer Brewery at St. Joseph's Abbey, went on sale for the first time in January.
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You definitely got mail! What’s inside the papal postbox?

Pope Francis gets so much mail — about 30 large mail sacks a week — that the Vatican has set up a special office to sort through and read the overflowing stacks.
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Yay. More snow.

The first time it snowed this year it was magical.Even the second time was pretty amazing.Since then I've lost track.Yesterday—with the help of a kind neighbor with a snow blower—we (meaning John) got to this point.Only to wake up to this scene this morning.You might think Leo and Daniel would
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