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Lund, Sweden, Nov 1, 2016 / 04:44 am (CNA/EWTN News).- The saints of the Church have many different qualities, but one thing that unites them all is a sense of joy, Pope Francis said in his All Saints Day Mass in Sweden.“If there is one thing typical of the saints, it is that they are genuinely happy,” the Pope said in his homily Nov. 1, All Saints Day.The saints, he said, “found the secret of authentic happiness, which lies deep within the soul and has its source in the love of God. That is why we call the saints blessed.”He then pointed to the Beatitudes, explaining that they are both the path saints take as well as their final goal: “the Beatitudes are the way of life that the Lord teaches us, so that we can follow in his footsteps.”Pope Francis celebrated Mass at the Swedbank Stadium in Malmö on the last day of his Oct. 31-Nov. 1 visit to Sweden for the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation. He participated in a joint praye...
CHICAGO (AP) -- Sam Bradford and the Minnesota Vikings were rolling as the NFL's last undefeated team. Now, they can't even beat the last-place team in their division....
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Police say three people are dead after a school bus and a commuter bus crashed in southwest Baltimore....
BALTIYSK, Russia (AP) -- Russia held civil defense drills involving 40 million people this month, the largest since the collapse of the Soviet Union. State media broadcast instantly recognizable Soviet imagery, showing school children trying on gas masks, and urge viewers to find the nearest bomb shelter "before it's too late."...
BAZWAYA, Iraq (AP) -- Iraq's special forces entered the outskirts of Mosul on Tuesday and were advancing toward its more urban center despite fierce resistance by Islamic State group fighters who hold the city, an Iraqi general said....
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MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Families bring flowers. Relatives seek out graves of departed soldiers. Tombs across the Philippines get cleaned up. And prayers - prayers with candles, silent prayers, group prayers, prayers for loved ones now gone - echo across the land....
HAVANA (AP) -- For a while Saul Berenthal and Horace Clemmons were the seventy-something poster boys of U.S.-Cuba detente....
PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- Transit workers in Philadelphia are hitting the picket lines Tuesday and commuters are scrambling to make alternate plans after the city's main transit agency and a union representing about 4,700 workers failed to reach a contract agreement....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- An increasing number of people from far-flung corners of the world quietly have tried to sneak into the United States among the hundreds of thousands of other, mostly Latin American migrants caught at the Mexican border in the last year, according to arrest data from the Homeland Security Department....
