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IMAGE: CNS photo/Bob RollerBy Rhina GuidosWASHINGTON (CNS) -- Most of us face death when a loved onepasses away, and family and friends head to a cemetery. But at the FranciscanMonastery of the Holy Land in Washington, the friars may think about death moreoften than most people since a cemetery with their Franciscan brothers who havedied is right in their backyard, lining a pastoral path where the living walk oncrisp fall days.On All Souls' Day this year, that's where they gathered formidday prayer, to include the dead in their prayers and to include them in lifeby remembering them."It's simple tradition," but one that has been around fordecades, said Father Larry Dunham, the guardian of the monastery. "We gatherfor our Franciscan family, our religious family."Midday prayer is one of shortest parts of the Liturgy of theHours, which the friars pray several times at a day but they have chosen theprayer in the middle of the day, when the sun is at its highest, to include thedead in th...
CLEVELAND (AP) -- The Latest on Game 7 of the World Series between the Chicago Cubs and Cleveland Indians on Wednesday (all times local):...
HELENA, Ala. (AP) -- A fire sparked by a huge explosion on a major gasoline pipeline continued burning Wednesday two days after the fatal blast as congressional Democrats sought an investigation of the Georgia-based operator....
Doctors have found a disturbing downside to some powerful new drugs that harness the immune system to fight cancer: In rare cases, they may cause potentially fatal heart damage, especially when used together....
GREENVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Somebody set the fire that heavily damaged an African-American church that was also spray-painted with the phrase "Vote Trump," and an $11,000 reward is being offered for information leading to the conviction of whoever did it, a Mississippi fire chief said Wednesday....
CANNON BALL, N.D. (AP) -- Officers in riot gear clashed again Wednesday with protesters near the Dakota Access pipeline, hitting dozens with pepper spray as they waded through waist-deep water in an attempt to reach property owned by the pipeline's developer....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- The Baltimore school bus driver who died along with five others in a collision with a commuter bus was found at fault in three traffic-related cases in the last eight years, according to civil and criminal court records and an attorney interviewed by The Associated Press on Wednesday....
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- A white man with a history of racial provocations and confrontations with police ambushed and fatally shot two white officers Wednesday in separate attacks as they sat in their patrol cars, authorities said....
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- President Barack Obama twice generated a historic wave of African-American support on his way to the White House, but worries now the black vote "is not as solid as it needs to be" for Hillary Clinton....
MIAMI (AP) -- With the turbulent White House race scrambled in new directions, Donald Trump is campaigning like it all hinges on one all-too-familiar swing state: Florida....
