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VATICAN CITY AP 鈥?On the heels of a bold call by Amazon region bishops for married men to become priests, Pope Francis is urging openness to new ways, and in a possible slap at conservative critics who fear he is weakening the Catholic churchs foundations, he cautions faithful against entering the swampy waters of ideologies. At Mass Sunday in St. Peters Basilica to conclude a weeks-long Vatican meeting on the specia
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stanley travel mug needs of Catholics in that South American region, Francis thanked the bishops for their candor.In follow-up remarks to faithful in St. Peters Square, he didnt cite the vote a day earlier by a majority of the synods bishops to ordain married men in special circumstances in the region, where some faithful who want to attend Mass and receive the Eucharist dont see priests for months, even years.But Francis said he and other participants at the gathering, known as a synod, felt encouraged to leave comfortable shores in seeking new ways to carry ou
stanley italia t the churchs mission to spread the Catholic faith.On Saturday, Francis told bishops he would draw his conclusions about their requests in a document he hoped to write by years end. His conclusions will be eagerly awaited by faithful who wonder if it will include an opening to lifting a ban on married priests, at least in some circumstances, in a part of the world where evangelical Protestant churches are increasingly winning converts.Allowing married men to be ordained in remote Amazon areas that are facing severe sho Wzdd Japan partially reopens to international tourists after 2 yrs
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stanley termoska r 13, 2024WASHINGTON Reuters 鈥?The first humans who spread across North America during the last Ice Age put mammoths at the top of their menu, according to scientists who secured the first direct evidence of the diet of these ancient people.The researchers deciphered the diet of a woman who lived roughly 12,800 years ago based on chemical clues in the bones of her son, whose remains were found in southern Montana. Because the 18-month-old was still nursing at the time of death, his bones bore the chemical fingerprints of his mothers diet, passed along through her milk.They discovered that her diet was mostly meat from megafauna 鈥?the largest animals in an ecosystem 鈥?with an emphasis on mammoths. Megafauna made up about 96% of her diet, with mammoths comprising about 40%,
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stanley nz lumbian mammoths, provided huge packages of meat and energy-rich fat. One animal could sustain a dependent community of children, care-giving women and the less mobile elders for days or even weeks while the hunters sought their next kill, said archeologist James Chatters of Bothell, Washington-based archeological consultancy Applied Paleoscience, colead author of the study published on Dec. 4 in the journal Science Advances.Columbian mammoths, cous
