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A rooster is sacrificed during a Santeria ceremony in 2009 in honor of the ocean goddess Yemaya during the Cuban Caribbean Festival. Santeria has its roots in Africa but is practiced by a majority of Cubans, many more than under 10 percent practicing Roman Catholicism. (Associated Press)

Cuban Santeros wary as pope’s visit looms

By Andrea Rodriguez - Associated Press

Car bomb explodes near Nigerian church; 10 killed

By Ahmed Saka and Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

St. Peter Church in Cleveland is seen Wednesday March 7, 2012. The Vatican has taken the extraordinary step of overruling the closing of 13 U.S. parishes, a lawyer who fought the cutbacks said Wednesday. The move represents a rare instance in which Rome has reversed a U.S. bishop on the shutdown of churches. St. Peter Church is one of the churches effected by the decision. (AP Photo/Tom Sheeran)

Vatican overrules Cleveland bishop, reverses closing of 13 parishes

By Thomas J. Sheeran and Jay Lindsay - Associated Press

A girl attending mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church sits in a pew in front of clothing and supplies that have been collected to aid victims of a tornado in Henryville, Ind., Sunday, March 4, 2012. The church was in the path of a tornado that destroyed much of the town. Three people were killed in Southern Indiana by Tornados on Friday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

Survivors learn to live without latest gadgets

By Tom LoBianco - Associated Press

WILLIAMS: A mortal sin

By Armstrong Williams - The Washington Times

Sen. Marco Rubio, Florida Republican, speaks Feb. 9, 2012, at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in D.C. The annual political conference draws thousands of supporters and prominent conservative figures. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Forum hears rallying cry against birth-control rule

By Sean Lengell - The Washington Times

House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican

Boehner: Congress will undo contraception rule

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

** FILE ** Monsignor Stephen Rossetti (right), a psychologist who for a decade ran a U.S. treatment center for abusive priests, listens Feb. 8, 2012, to Monsignor Charles Scicluna during a press conference in Rome. Monsignor Scicluna spoke on the sidelines of a Vatican-backed symposium on clerical sex abuse that is designed to help bishops craft guidelines to protect children and keep pedophiles out of the priesthood. (Associated Press)

Vatican sex crimes prosecutor warns bishops

By Nicole Winfield - Associated Press

President Obama, in an appearance at the James Lee Community Center in Falls Church, Va., on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2012, details his proposal that would allow millions of "underwater" borrowers to refinance home loans. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

EDITORIAL: Obama’s lack of conscience

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES - The Washington Times

White House press secretary Jay Carney listens Feb. 7, 2012, during his daily news briefing at the White House. (Associated Press)

White House wants to address contraceptives rule

By Erica Werner - Associated Press

** FILE ** President Barack Obama, accompanied by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, arrives in the backyard of a private residence in Falls Church, Va., Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2010, to discuss the Patient's Bill of Rights and health care reform. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

KUHNER: Obama threatens religious liberty

By Jeffrey T. Kuhner - The Washington Times

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Onlookers gather around a destroyed car at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)

Christmas attacks in Nigeria by sect kill 39

By Jon Gambrell - Associated Press

Archbishop of Washington Cardinal Donald Wuerl makes his way down the center isle at the beginning of Christmas Mass held at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on Christmas Day, Washington, D.C., Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (Andrew Harnik/The Washington Times)

Wuerl: Christmas is a day to realize ‘There’s more to life’

By David Hill - The Washington Times

Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times

REILLY: Unholy abortion compromise

By Patrick J. Reilly - The Washington Times

Archbishop of Utrecht Wim Eijk speaks Dec. 16, 2011, during a press conference in Zeist, Netherlands. (Associated Press)

Report slams Dutch Catholic church over sex abuse

By Mike Corder - Associated Press

Pope Benedict XVI (AP Photo/Miro Kuzmanovic, Pool)

Pope to visit Cuba in the spring

By Anne-Marie Garcia - Associated Press

New Mass translation launches in U.S. parishes

By Tom Breen - Associated Press

Pope Benedict XVI (AP Photo/Miro Kuzmanovic, Pool)

Pope: Sex abuse ‘scourge’ for all society

By Frances D'Emilio - Associated Press

People from the Pakistani Christian community in Karachi, Pakistan, attend a Sunday service at the new St. Peter's church. The domed, three-story building towers over the sprawling slum it serves and is the largest yet in the violent, Muslim country. (Associated Press)

New 5,000-seat Christian church a sign of the faithful’s resilience

By Ashraf Khan - Associated Press