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Members of the Mary Magdalene Apostle Catholic Community gather for Mass on Jan. 20. The church is headed by Jane Via, ordained with the Catholic Womenpriests movement, and attracts progressive Catholics who have broken with the Vatican on issues including women's ordination and birth control. Photo courtesy Megan O'Neil
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Jane Via, 65, a retired San Diego county prosecutor, celebrates mass with Dr. Jon Connor at Mary Magdalene Apostle Catholic Community in San Diego on Jan. 20. Via was ordained within the Catholic Womenpriests movement, which flaunts church law forbidding women's ordination. Photo courtesy Megan O'Neil
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A procession at the start of the enthronement service of The Most Reverend Justin Welby as Archbishop of Canterbury inside Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent. Photo courtesy Anglican Communion News Service/The Press Association
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Justin Welby, the 57-year old former oil executive who quit the world of high finance in 1992 to become a priest, was enthroned Thursday (March 21) as the 105th archbishop of Canterbury and spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans. Photo courtesy Anglican Communion News Service/The Press Association
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With Prince Charles and Camilla the Duchess of Cornwall looking on, Justin Welby struck his pastoral staff three times on the door of the ancient Canterbury Cathedral, seeking admission to assume his throne in a ceremony that mixed age-old pageantry with contemporary praise and worship songs. Photo courtesy Anglican Communion News Service/The Press Association
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Senior pastor Robert Jeffress of First Baptist Church in Dallas. RNS photo courtesy First Baptist Church in Dallas.
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Taking pride of place in a new exhibit at New York's Museum of Biblical Art— literally — is a 12-foot hand-crocheted artwork of cotton and acrylic yarn by New York artist Xenobia Bailey entitled “Sistah Paradise’s Great Walls of Fire Revival Tent; Mystic Seer; Faith Healer; Enchantress Extraordinaire.” RNS photo courtesy New York's Museum of Biblical Art.
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Margo Humphrey's 'The Last Bar-B-Que' (1989) - A new exhibit at New York's Museum of Biblical Art makes one point clear and inescapable: Biblical narratives and imagery have been an underlining constant in the life of African-American Christians. RNS photo courtesy of the Hampton University Museum, Hampton, VA.
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William H. Johnson's 'Jesus and the Three Marys' (c. 1939-1940) - A new exhibit at New York's Museum of Biblical Art makes one point clear and inescapable: Biblical narratives and imagery have been an underlining constant in the life of African-American Christians. RNS photo courtesy Howard University Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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The animated figure on the computer screen moves carefully among the wounded, darting from one fallen figure to another. Trailing the combat medics, the uniformed military chaplain kneels and performs “spiritual triage,” assessing who is dead, who is soon to die, and who is likely to survive. RNS photo courtesy University of Central Florida.
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