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	Vatican Insists Upon The Right To Be Divisive

BartendingBear

12-15-2007 4:16 PM

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Missionaries? A terrorist by any other name is still as disruptive.

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12-18-2007 11:24 AM

Efrain Alvarado

"Nobody is a Christian for oneself alone. The gift of faith is given to us so that by word and example we may become witnesses before others."

Pope John Paul II

How is this terrorism? Are the missionaries using force and terror for the conversion of the people they care for?

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