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Worshipers attend a memorial mass held for supporters and families of those killed in the Aurora movie theater shootings, at St. Michael the Archangel Catholic Church, in Aurora, Colo., on Friday July 19, 2013. Saturday, July 20 marks one year since the theater killing rampage left 12 dead and 70 wounded. (AP Photo/Brennan Linsley)

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Wounded churchgoers lie on the ground as Roman Catholic nuns run for cover after a blast at the St. Joseph Mfanyakazi Roman Catholic Church in Arusha, Tanzania Sunday, May 5, 2013. A Tanzanian police official says a woman died and over 40 people were seriously injured when a bomb exploded in the Roman Catholic Church in northern Tanzania, with eyewitnesses reporting that the bomb was thrown from a motorcycle. (Associated Press)

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An Albuquerque Police officer walks behind the tape at St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, Sunday April 28, 2013, in Albuquerque, N.M., the scene of a multiple stabbing at the conclusion of morning services. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Dean Hanson)

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People gather in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, March 13, 2013, as the cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church continued the conclave to choose a new pope. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno)

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The princes of the Roman Catholic Church, including Cardinals Roger Mahony (left) and Timothy Dolan (third from left) of the United States, arrive for a meeting at the Vatican on Monday, March 11, 2013. The cardinals gathered for their final day of talks before the conclave to elect the next pope amid debate over whether the church needs a manager pope to clean up the Vatican's messy bureaucracy or a pastoral pope who can inspire the faithful and make Catholicism relevant again. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

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Catholic devotees jostle near the centuries-old image of the Black Nazarene on its feast day Wednesday in Manila. The Catholic Church no longer sways the masses on issues such as birth control as it once did. (Associated Press)

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A Venezuelan Embassy worker at a monthly service for the sick at a Catholic church in Regla, Cuba, shows support for Hugo Chavez, his country's ailing president hospitalized in Havana and unable to attend his inauguration Thursday. (Associated Press)

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Without lights or heat, parishioners take part in a Sunday service at St. Camillus Roman Catholic Church in the Rockaway Park neighborhood of the borough of Queens, New York, Sunday, Nov.11, 2012, almost two weeks in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle)