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Today's Picture: Memorial for a Slain Nun

November 6, 2009 RSS Feed Print

By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country


(AP Photo/Heather Clark)

A makeshift memorial at St. Berard's Catholic Church in Navajo, New Mexico, where Sister Marguerite Bartz was found murdered last Sunday. The slaying has rattled an impoverished Indian reservation town.

 

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whoever did this a nun must be executed! don't let them get away with hidous crime.

ben of AZ 10:01AM November 07, 2009

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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