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** FILE ** Soldiers stand guard outside St. Rita's Catholic Church following a suicide bombing in Kaduna, Nigeria, on Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. (AP Photo)

Children from St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Md., including Joseph Luksic, 8, second from right, and Isabella Merino, 8, far right, wait inside their church with bags full of donated items to be taken to New Jersey for victims of Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 9, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Angelina Trigiani, 3, of Brookeville, Md., carries a bag of donated items from St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Md., to a passenger van that will deliver them to a church in Holmdel, N.J., for victims of Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 9, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Sara Thomas (left), 7, picks up a dropped box of trash bags while Julia Luksic (center), 5, and Mira Thomas (right), 9, also carry trash bags to a big passenger van that is being loaded with donations to go to Superstorm Sandy victims in New Jersey on Nov. 9, 2012, at St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church in Silver Spring, Md. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Nina Thomas (left), 5, Sara Thomas (center), 7, and Julia Luksic, 5, all students at the St. Andrew the Apostle Catholic Church school in Silver Spring, Md., carry trash bags out to the passenger van that is headed to New Jersey to bring supplies to victims of Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 9, 2012. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Children from the St. Andrew Apostle Catholic Church school in Silver Spring, Md., help parishioner Rick Gross load his SUV with baby products to take to New Jersey for victims of Superstorm Sandy on Nov. 9, 2012. The church, which also sent a passenger van full of clothes, cleaning products and toiletries, plans to hold a toy drive as well. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Meg Dolan holds her dog "Nellie" during Sunday mass at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Girls hold hands during Sunday mass at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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A man wipes his eyes as he, Kathleen Beissel and her daughter Meaghan, 7, attend Sunday mass at the St. Thomas More Catholic church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Meg Dolan holds her dog "Nellie" during Sunday mass at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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Girls hold hands during Sunday mass at St. Thomas More Catholic Church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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A man wipes his eyes as he, Kathleen Beissel and her daughter Meaghan, 7, attend Sunday mass at the St. Thomas More Catholic church in Breezy Point, in the wake of Superstorm Sandy, Sunday, Nov. 4, 2012, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

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A coalition of Catholic groups is calling on a D.C. nonprofit to return its $50,000 grant to the Catholic Church because the group linked to a pamphlet called "Hey Grrl!" that it says instructs young girls on how to get away with prostitution, truancy, car sex, and illegal drug possession.

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High-ranking Roman Catholic prelates appear in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City in September 1963 for the opening ceremony of the continuation of the Second Vatican Council designed to “open the windows” on the Roman Catholic Church. (The Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Maria Shriver (right) and her husband, actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, leave the funeral Mass for her father, R. Sargent Shriver, at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Potomac, Md., just outside Washington, on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets well-wishers Tuesday as she leaves St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Her two-day visit marking her Diamond Jubilee is scheduled to include a meeting with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness for what many view as the symbolic conclusion to a decades-long conflict with the crown. (Associated Press)