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Brother André expressed a saint’s faith by a lifelong devotion to St. Joseph. Sickness and weakness dogged André from birth. He was the eighth of 12 children born to a French Canadian couple near Montreal. Adopted at 12, when both parents had died, he became a farmhand. Various trades followed: shoemaker, baker, blacksmith—all failures. He was a factory worker in the United States during the boom times of the Civil War. At 25, he applied for entrance into the Congregation of the Holy Cross. After a year’s novitiate, he was not admitted because of his weak health. But with an...

Three years after the air crash death of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren Bessette, the National Enquirer is coming out this weekend with a 26 page section devoted to the tragedy.The supermarket tab says it's had an investigative team working full time since the the fateful day of July 16.One claim they make is that the crash wasn't John's fault-that is was caused by Carolyn using her cell phone during the trip and and perhaps blocking out vital flight control functions. You can assume this investigation was taken seriously at the tab, because American...

With Friday's conviction for the first-degree murder of Martha Moxley, how many women have the Kennedys killed, harmed or maimed? Let's count: Back in July of 1969 Sen. Teddy Kennedy drove a car off a bridge, killing 'Boiler Room Girl' Mary Jo Kopechne. By his own admission, he caused her death. So, that is One Woman Dead. Then, four years ago, John F. Kennedy Jr. flew his airplane into the Atlantic Ocean off Nantucket, killing his wife and sister-in-law. The Kennedy family has admitted his negligence by settling a multimillion-dollar 'wrongful death' lawsuit threatened by the Bessette family. According to...