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** FILE ** Maria Shriver (right) and her husband, actor and former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, leave the funeral Mass for her father, R. Sargent Shriver, at Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church in Potomac, Md., just outside Washington, on Saturday, Jan. 22, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II greets well-wishers Tuesday as she leaves St. Michael's Roman Catholic Church in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland. Her two-day visit marking her Diamond Jubilee is scheduled to include a meeting with former IRA leader Martin McGuinness for what many view as the symbolic conclusion to a decades-long conflict with the crown. (Associated Press)

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Parishioners gather around the cross at St. Mary's Catholic Church. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Parishioners gather around the cross at St. Mary's Catholic Church on Tuesday, May 22, 2012, in Joplin, Mo. The cross is all that remains of the church which was destroyed by a deadly tornado one year ago. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

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Onlookers examine a destroyed car at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Dec. 25, 2011. An explosion ripped through the Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital, killing 25. A radical Muslim sect claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** A woman ignites a candle before a Mass in the Roman Catholic Church at St. Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. Researches have been trying to determine whether a part of the human brain – a "God spot" – is responsible for spiritual feelings. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak)

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** FILE ** Nigerians gather around a car used by a suicide bomber at a Catholic church in Jos, Nigeria, on Sunday, March 11, 2012. (AP Photo, File)

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Cuban-American Nestor Machado, who left Cuba 52 years ago, takes pictures outside the Virgin of Charity of Cobre Catholic church in El Cobre near Santiago de Cuba, Cuba, on March 26, 2012. More than 300 Cuban-Americans and other pilgrims have arrived in Cuba for Pope Benedict XVI's visit on a trip led by Miami Archbishop Thomas Wenski. (Associated Press)

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On Sunday, March 4, 2012, a priest stands outside St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Gaithersburg, the church where Barbara Johnson was recently denied communion at her mother's funeral because she is a lesbian. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times)

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Piles of debris are all that remain, right, at the site of the St. Louis Catholic church, which collapsed a day earlier following explosions at an adjacent munitions depot, in Brazzaville, Congo Monday, March 5, 2012. Unknown numbers of victims are believed to be trapped under the rubble as rescues wait for the area to be safe to enter. (AP Photo/Elie Mbena)

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A girl attending mass at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church sits in a pew in front of clothing and supplies that have been collected to aid victims of a tornado in Henryville, Ind., Sunday, March 4, 2012. The church was in the path of a tornado that destroyed much of the town. Three people were killed in Southern Indiana by Tornados on Friday. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy)

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FILE - In a Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011 file photo, medical officials try to treat a victim of a bomb blast at a Catholic church near Nigeria's capital at Suleja General Hospital in Suleja, Nigeria. An explosion ripped through a Catholic church during Christmas Mass near Nigeria's capital Sunday, killing at least 25 people, officials said. A radical Muslim sect, Boko Haram, claimed the attack and another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos, as explosions also struck the nation's northeast. Boko Haram's insurgency started with robed men on motorcycles killing their enemies one at a time across Nigeria's remote and dusty northeast. Now the radical Muslim sect's attacks have morphed into a nationwide sectarian fight. (AP Photo/Dele Jones, File)

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Above: Onlookers gather around the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Christmas Day. A radical Muslim sect claimed responsibility for the attack and for another bombing near a church in the restive city of Jos. Below: Rescue workers remove the body of one of the victims. (Associated Press)

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An armed soldier walks past a car destroyed in a blast next to St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Dele Jones)

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Onlookers gather around a destroyed car at the site of a bomb blast at St. Theresa Catholic Church in Madalla, Nigeria, on Sunday, Dec. 25, 2011. (AP Photo/Sunday Aghaeze)