Pope Benedict XVI and his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, met Saturday amid tensions over the Roman Catholic Church's recent opening to disaffected Anglicans.

Pope Benedict XVI and his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, had "cordial discussions" Saturday, the Vatican said amid tensions between the two churches.

Pope Benedict XVI and his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, had "cordial discussions" on Saturday, the Vatican said amid tensions between the two churches.

Pope Benedict XVI and his Anglican counterpart, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, met on Saturday amid tensions over the Roman Catholic Church's recent opening to disaffected Anglicans.

Navy secretary orders removal of Marines, Navy man convicted in death of Iraqi man. Three Marines and a Navy man convicted of aiding the kidnapping and murder of an Iraqi man have been ordered removed from the military, the Navy said Wednesday.

O pus Dei means ``work of God'' in Latin. At the Montrose School in Medfield, it means educating girls to be leaders with ``faith, character, and vision,'' said the independent Catholic institution's head, Karen E. Bohlin. For Mary Brennan, a Franklin mother of six, it is a search for divinity in everyday life as she cares for her children and works part time. ``It's faith in practice,'' said Brennan, who prays several times a day, using a rosary, Latin readings, and the New Testament. ``As Catholics, it's making a connection between work and faith.'' Eighty years after being founded in Spain by St. Josemaria Escriva, Opus Dei remains an under-the-radar extension of Catholicism that is often misunderstood, adherents say. Yet it maintains a thriving presence in Greater Boston, with about 300 members, centers in Chestnut Hill, Boston's Back Bay, Cambridge, and Pembroke, and the affiliated school in Medfield for girls in grades 6 through 12. It took an image crisis - spurred by a 2003 nov

Scott Brown was not always the self-assured state senator, lawyer, National Guard officer, triathlete, and Republican candidate for US Senate that he is today. Far from it. He was once a shaggy-haired 12-year-old growing up in Wakefield, drifting into trouble. His parents divorced when he was a year old, he said, and each remarried three times. Asked if he had ever been arrested, Brown, choking up at times, related a story he said he had never told: ``My mom was on welfare a little bit, and, you know, I lived with my grandparents, I lived with my aunt, whatever. I was a jerk. I had some issues. You know, I was lost. . . . Mom was always working. . . . There was some violence in there where I would be sticking up for my mom and sisters. . . . I may get a little emotional. . . . And one day I was out with some older kids. . . . We were in Salem. . . . I had a pair of farmer overalls, and I stuck some records in them. . . . I was walking out, and a guy caught me. ``And so I was arrested a

Scott Brown was not always the self-assured state senator, lawyer, National Guard officer, triathlete, and Republican candidate for US Senate that he is today. Far from it. He was once a shaggy-haired 12-year-old growing up in Wakefield, drifting into trouble. His parents divorced when he was a year old, he said, and each remarried three times. Asked if he had ever been arrested, Brown, choking up at times, related a story he said he had never told: ``My mom was on welfare a little bit, and, you know, I lived with my grandparents, I lived with my aunt, whatever. I was a jerk. I had some issues. You know, I was lost. . . . Mom was always working. . . . There was some violence in there where I would be sticking up for my mom and sisters. . . . I may get a little emotional. . . . And one day I was out with some older kids. . . . We were in Salem. . . . I had a pair of farmer overalls, and I stuck some records in them. . . . I was walking out, and a guy caught me. ``And so I was arrested a

Guarded by scarlet leather-bound doors and bordered inside with gilt-lettered books and marble busts, the Boston Athenaeum for decades was the province of the city's elite families. The Cabots and the Adamses and the Coolidges all claimed membership in the private library on Beacon Hill, handing down their membership ``shares'' through the generations. To belong to the Athenaeum - to have license to troll through the personal library of George Washington and a rare collection of Confederate documents and memorabilia - was to belong to Boston's highest society, or at least have access to it. Entree was coveted, sought after, and not always granted. ``Any barriers that surround it have been high enough to keep out nuisances,'' the Athenaeum's library director from 1946 to 1973, Walter Muir Whitehill, once said. Yet in an age when elite institutions are no longer built on last names, and in the face of new technology and a battering recession, the Athenaeum has found itself confronting ne

It's always been a difficult task to rule a medieval kingdom. Back then, it was starving peasants demanding bread; today, it's 21st-century customers complaining about the prices and selection offered by royal food vendors. And there always seems to be a menacing rival kingdom to the south. What does the founder of King Richard's Faire, now in its 28th season in the woods of Carver, plan to do about it? ``Put on a great show and try as hard as we can to show people a good time and make them laugh,'' said Bonnie Shapiro, who launched the faire with her late husband, Richard, and has led its growth into New England's premier Renaissance festival. This faire season, which started Sept. 5 and continues on weekends through Oct. 25, has been troubled by recession, rain, discontent among suburban vendors and performers, and the growing popularity of an upstart competitor in Connecticut. Many members of the state's small, tightknit ``Rennie'' community, like Littleton costumer Dina Flockhart o

American arrested in Japan for taking his kids from ex-wife as int'l custody battles intensify. An American father was arrested in Japan after snatching his children from the hands of his ex-wife, who had taken the kids to her native country without telling him.

Forest Service backs wilderness protection for Coast Range old growth forest. The U.S. Forest Service has endorsed designation of a new wilderness area in an area of Oregon's Coast Range known for a remote waterfall called the Devil's Staircase.

Family requests Perry play Presidents Cup after mother's death. Kenny Perry's mother has died after a long battle with blood cancer, and the 49-year-old American said he would play in the Presidents Cup next week in San Francisco at his family's request.

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Unknown Civil War soldier reburied in Tenn.; crowd includes 2 sons born to veterans of the war. A Civil War soldier whose remains were found in a battlefield grave last spring was reburied Saturday by admirers who knew neither his name nor even what side he fought on.

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REVOLUTION NOTEBOOK FOXBOROUGH - Revolution assistant coach Paul Mariner could be headed to England. Mariner, 56, has received an offer from Plymouth Argyle, one of the clubs he starred for as a player, to become technical director of the League Championship (second division) team. Mariner, who scored 13 goals in 35 appearances for England's national team, has been the top assistant of head coach Steve Nicol since 2004. Mariner moved to the United States to perform for Albany in 1988 and was involved in club coaching in Arizona and the Boston area before joining the Revolution. Though Mariner's specialty is considered to be working with forwards, he also has handled practice drills for the Revolution. ``Plymouth has asked permission to speak to Paul from our organization,'' Revolution general manager Mike Burns said before last night's game against Columbus. ``We've granted that. They have spoken to him, they have had conversations. But nothing is final.'' Asked if the Revolution could

When baseball playoffs turn cold, players go high tech to stay warm: 5 ways they do it. Frosty breath, ski caps and pitchers blowing on their hands ? ah, it must be time for the baseball playoffs.

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Federal arts chair to see how 'Rent' plays in Peoria as part of 6-month tour of US. The country's top arts official is going on the road.