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• Rice: U.S. does not consider war on terror a war on Islam | President Bush's national security adviser insisted Sunday that the U.S. fight against terrorism is not a war between Christianity and Islam, despite a top general's comments that seemed to say it is. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Muzzling the wrong dog | Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin, a much decorated soldier, was wounded by the political correctness movement last week over comments he made comparing the war against militant Islam to a battle against Satan. Boykin, who is deputy undersecretary of Defense, had told evangelical Christian audiences that radical Islam threatens to destroy America "because we're a Christian nation." (Cal Thomas)
  
  
• Bare Boykin and Bush's divine place | Lt. General William Boykin, whose title is under secretary of defense for intelligence and war-fighting support, is a rightwing evangelical Christian. (Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive)
  
  

Mother Teresa

• Her legacy: acceptance and doubts of a miracle | Several thousand miles away from the Vatican ceremony where Mother Teresa was beatified on Sunday, nuns and volunteers celebrated in her adopted homeland and vowed to continue her work of caring for "the poorest of the poor." (New York Times)
  
  
• Before throngs, Pope leads Mother Teresa closer to sainthood | Seeming ever more frail, Pope John Paul II beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta on Sunday as an "icon of the Good Samaritan," declaring her close to sainthood before tens of thousands of worshipers in St. Peter's Square. (New York Times)
  
  
• In Rome, the selling of blessed Mother Teresa | In the days before Pope John Paul II presides on Sunday over the beatification of Mother Teresa of Calcutta, the city of Rome seems to be competing with its own history of ecclesiastical excess to ensure that the ceremony proceeds with the maximum spiritual, spectacular — and commercial — effect. (New York Times)
  
  
• Mother Teresa beatified | Pilgrims applaud, weep as ailing Pope presides at ceremony (Washington Post)
  
  
• Spiritually, even Mother Teresa suffered | Letters, Recollections Reveal Periods When Missionary Felt Abandoned by God (AP)
  
  
• Mother Teresa's legacy lives on | Six years after her death and as she is beatified in Rome, Mother Teresa's spirit remains vibrant in Kolkata, the east Indian city where, for decades, she gave dignity to the dying, compassion to the poor and a home to abandoned and handicapped children. (Asia Times Online, Hong Kong)
  
  
• Legendary nun given elite status | Royalty prayed alongside the poor, and Indian dancers shared stage with the world's most eminent prelates, as Pope John Paul II on Sunday beatified Mother Teresa of Calcutta, giving the famous nun an elite status one step short of sainthood just six years after her death. (Contra Costa Times, CA)
  
  
• 'I am Mother Theresa's miracle' | Monica Besra says she is living proof that Mother Teresa performed a miracle from heaven and deserves to become a saint. (The Star, Africa)
  
  
• Pope beatifies 'servant of the least' | 300,000 worshippers flock to St Peter's Square to see Mother Teresa come closer to sainthood (The Guardian)
  
  
• Mother Teresa hid doubts | As beatification nears, colleagues say she often felt abandoned by God (AP)
  
  
• Joyous pope beatifies Mother Teresa | Pope John Paul (news - web sites) II, struggling to celebrate Mass but looking joyous, beatified Mother Teresa during a ceremony Sunday in St. Peter's Square — bestowing one of his church's highest honors on the nun who cared for society's downtrodden. (AP)
  
  

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