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  US diocese leader arrested for drunken driving

  The leader of a Roman Catholic Diocese was arrested over the weekend on a drunken driving charge after an alleged hit-and-run accident. 

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  Parents: Speechless after Pope hugged disabled son

  A U.S. couple says they were speechless and moved to tears when Pope Francis hugged and kissed their 8-year-old son in St. Peter's Square on Easter ... 

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  POPE LIVE: End of a papacy, dawn of a retirement

  "Pope Live" follows the events of the final day of Pope Benedict XVI's papacy as seen by journalists from The Associated Press around the world. 

• COMMENTS FROM PROVIDENCE

  In Rhode Island, one of the nation's most Catholic states, several hundred people packed the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence for a ... 

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  Smallest state is big battleground on gay marriage

  Hundreds of supporters of same-sex marriage rights assembled at the Rhode Island Statehouse on Tuesday, urging lawmakers to make the nation's smallest ...