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| Bill Gates gives $800 grand to repair 6 Catholic schools Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:17 pm (GMT -5)  Gates grant to help repair Catholic schools Yakima Herald-Republic November 1, 2007 Link to original The Diocese of Yakima recently received an $800,000 grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to help fund building repairs at six Catholic elementary schools throughout Central Washington, including two in Yakima. Projects will begin this fall and include asbestos removal, air conditioning and heating, roofing and plumbing work. The six schools slated for repair are: St. Paul Cathedral Catholic School in Yakima, St. Joseph/Marquette Catholic School in Yakima, St. Joseph Catholic School in Kennewick, Christ the King Catholic School in Richland, St. Rose of Lima Catholic School in Ephrata and St. Joseph Catholic School in Wenatchee. The money will be used to renovate these schools in communities where parishes have been unable to keep up with deferred maintenance. |
| Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 12:37 pm (GMT -5)  Witchcraft goes mainstream Wed Oct 31, 2007 7:40pm GMT By Sarah Marsh LONDON (Reuters) - Witchcraft got its annual public outing on Wednesday with the celebrations surrounding Halloween when the occult comes into its own. And prominent witches say that after generations in the dark, witchcraft is becoming increasingly mainstream boosted by television programmes such as "Sabrina, the Teenage Witch" and Harry Potter mania. "Witches are getting more and more in demand. People want a pagan wedding," said Maxine Sanders, high priestess of the sacred mysteries and a promoter of the modern nature-based witchcraft movement of Wicca. Sanders said that witchcraft was a taboo religion when she was initiated into a Manchester coven aged 16, causing a rupture with her family: "It was awful, the catholic priest was brought in with two altar boys, I was told to recant the devil, the police were brought in ..." Sanders earned notoriety in the 1960s when a newspaper published pictures of her carrying out a ritual naked. She told Reuters that she and her husband "wanted the right to practise our religion and fought for that right." People are more tolerant on the whole nowadays, she added, and more interested in witchcraft. WITCHCRAFT GOES MAINSTREAM As witchcraft becomes increasingly mainstream, the witch community has designated its own spokespeople to combat popular myths of crooked-nosed hags on broomsticks. Inbaal, 33, is a high priestess and spokeswoman for the large witch community "Children of Artemis", appearing regularly on television and radio. She told Reuters that witchcraft was illegal in her native country of Israel, but she had never encountered problems with the British police. "One time we went for a late year initiation with swords and a police car came past us ... we told them we were witches, upon which they said OK and drove off." Inbaal said that while her interest in witchcraft was sparked by a love of Tarot cards, for most people nowadays it was sparked by television programmes such as "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". However, only 7,227 people in England and Wales declared themselves Wiccans in the latest census of religious affiliation. More and more people are practising magic but they are not necessarily interested in the spiritual side of witchcraft, said John Cole, high priest of a Manchester coven and owner of an occult shop selling everything from cauldrons to Viking rune charms. Sanders explained that witchcraft is still a minority cult and does not actively seek converts: "People in the craft recognise that it is not for everybody. In the old days you'd have had the old wise woman in each village who would advise, heal and create concoctions -- witches are like that." © Reuters2007All rights reserved. _________________ http://www.geocities.com/demographic_crash |
| Last Mass at 89-year-old Johnstown church Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 11:45 am (GMT -5)  Click Logo To Link Original Last Mass at 89-year-old Johnstown church THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Article Last Updated: 11/01/2007 10:53:56 AM EDT JOHNSTOWN -- Worshippers gathered at what used to be Saints Peter and Paul Church in Johnstown to celebrate its final Mass. Bishop Joseph Adamec of the Altoona-Johnstown Roman Catholic Diocese on Monday night compared the closing of the 89-year-old church to a funeral. But he urged parishioners to focus on the future and not dwell on the past. The church has more recently been known as the chapel of Saint Clare of Assisi. The church was founded in 1918 and restored after the 1977 Johnstown Flood. The church celebrated its 75th anniversary in 1993. As Johnstown's population declined, Saints Peter and Paul was merged with nearby Saint Anthony's in 2000 and its status was changed to chapel. _________________ IN CORDIBUS JESU ET MARIÆ SECRETMAN |
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