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Community group now owns northern Iowa church

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ADVANCE FOR USE SATURDAY, MARCH 29 AND THEREAFTER - In this image made from video provided by The Order of The Ark Community, Pope Francis speaks to Bishop Tony Palmer, an ecumenical officer for the Communion of Evangelical Episcopal Churches, who made a video of his meeting with the pontiff at the Vatican in early 2014. Religious leaders say the informal greeting from Pope Francis has reset relations between the Roman Catholic Church and one of its fiercest competitors around the world, Pentecostals. The message was directed to the spirit-filled Christians whose popular movements have for decades been draining parishioners from the Catholic Church. (AP Photo/The Order of The Ark Community, Tony Palmer)

With iPhone, pope starts new era with Pentecostals

By RACHEL ZOLL - Associated Press

Vatican: Obama talks included birth control

By NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

U.S. President Barack Obama meets with Pope Francis, Thursday, March 27, 2014 at the Vatican. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Obama tells Pope Francis he is a “great admirer”

By JIM KUHNHENN and NICOLE WINFIELD - Associated Press

Ga. Catholic groups win fight over contraception

By KATE BRUMBACK - Associated Press

Pope Francis delivers his blessing during the Angelus noon prayer he celebrated from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Sunday, March 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

EDITORIAL: Obama at the Vatican

By THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Pope Francis listens to the message he was delivered by representatives of the Terni steel factory workers, during an audience he granted them in the Pope Paul VI hall, at the Vatican, (AP Photo/Andrew Medichini)

Pope taps women, victims for sex abuse commission

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Owatonna priests say pope has own style

By JEFFREY JACKSON - Associated Press

A Cardinal is sprinkled with ashes by Pope Francis during the Ash Wednesday mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. (AP Photo/Max Rossi, Pool)

Boehner invites Pope Francis to address Congress

By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times

Former Eastside Catholic High School Vice Principal Mark Zmuda speaks during a news conference in downtown Seattle on Friday, March 7, 2014 to announce a discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit against the school and the Archdiocese of Seattle. Zmuda was fired in 2013 after the school and archdiocese learned he had married his same-sex partner. (AP Photo/seattlepi.com, Joshua Trujillo)

Gay vice principal sues Seattle Archdiocese

By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP - Associated Press

A Cardinal is sprinkled with ashes by Pope Francis during the Ash Wednesday mass at the Santa Sabina Basilica in Rome, Wednesday, March 5, 2014. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent, a solemn period of 40 days of prayer and self-denial leading up to Easter. (AP Photo/Max Rossi, Pool)

Pope Francis opens the door to civil unions, a first for head of Catholic Church

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Wissam Akiki, who is married, left, serves his daughter, Perla, communion after being ordained during a ceremony at St. Raymond’s Maronite Cathedral Thursday, Feb. 27, 2014, in St. Louis. Akiki is the first married priest to be ordained by the Maronite Catholic Church in the United States in nearly a century. (AP Photo/Erin Stubblefield)

Married dad becomes Maronite Catholic priest in US

By JIM SALTER - Associated Press