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LIMA, Peru – Talking with neighbors in a small town in Ecuador one morning, Susana Nicoladi recalled a friend who immigrated into Spain while her husband stayed home with their children. He had an affair, she said, “and lost the children’s respect.”

VATICAN CITY – The Vatican official in charge of interreligious dialogue said he is confident a new level of dialogue with Muslims will take place in 2008.

BHUBANESWAR, India – Christian leaders in India have sought intervention from the federal government to end anti-Christian violence which has killed two Christians since the attacks by Hindu radicals began Dec. 24.

Every book 7-year-old Luke Koehler has checked out from the library has been on how to draw something – dinosaurs, pyramids, people, you name it.

Ah-choo. When you’re pregnant the last thing you need is to get sick. After all, you’ve probably been nauseated and tired enough.

I read with interest the debate on school sports during the holidays and on Sundays (CR, Dec. 13). It is God who gives us the power to win, not incessant practices. With one exception, the Ravens have had a losing season (they didn’t look too good in the games they won). Before the Patriots game Ray Lewis led his fellow University of Miami alumni in prayer and dedicated the game to their murdered friend. We would have beaten the Patriots, the best team in the NFL, had the whole team prayed.

Patricia Zapor’s CNS article (CR, Dec. 13) about Mitt Romney’s speech on religion and public life at the GHW Bush Library in College Station, Texas, contains a glaring omission.

People have a tendency to forget the term “vocations” includes sisters, deacons and brothers. Actually, people are inclined to forget it includes priests as well, said Father Gerard Francik, director of vocations for the Archdiocese of Baltimore.