Best-selling novelist Carlos Ruiz Zafon says he set out to recreate the storytelling of the great Victorian writers while including modern sensibilities.
A Minnesota priest who was gravely
wounded by a roadside bomb in Iraq five years ago has died, the
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis confirmed
Sunday.
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The Vatican has designated the Cathedral of Saint Paul as a national shrine, the first in Minnesota. The cathedral also becomes the the only national shrine in North America dedicated to honor the Apostle Paul.
A gunman, said by authorities to have
a violent and virulently anti-Semitic past, opened fire inside the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum on Wednesday, fatally wounding a security guard before being shot by other officers.
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A St. Paul rabbi faced a flurry of criticism this week after an independent Jewish magazine quoted him as saying he advocated killing Arabs and destroying their holy sites.
President Barack Obama called for a "new beginning
between the United States and Muslims" Thursday and said together,
they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance
the timeless search for peace in the Middle East.
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Rev. John Estrem has resigned as CEO of Catholic Charities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, the agency said Tuesday afternoon. His last day will be June 30.