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A Pennsylvania family found shot dead in their backyard last week in what police say appears to be a suicide pact, included a mother and daughter who loved bowling and were devout Christian conservatives, people who knew them said. Morgan Daub, 26, and her parents, James Daub, 62, and Deborah Daub, 59, were found dead on the ground in the backyard of their home in York County, Pennsylvania, on the morning of Jan. 25, after police responded to a request for a welfare check from a neighbor. The West Manchester Township Police Department has since said that notes left inside...

In the solemn season of Lent, in the year 1976, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla was invited by Pope Paul VI to preach the annual Retreat made by the Pope, Paul VI, and his closest aids. Few could have predicted at that time with any certainty that this Polish Cardinal would be Pope in less than two years. In the course of those Lenten refllections, the future John Paul II would elaborate the themes which he would develop in greater depth during his long Pontificate. One of those themes, arguably one of the most important of them, had to do with the...