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March 22, 2013
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Douglas County Catholics embrace Pope Francis’ priorities

Something distressed Penny McCue when she visited the Vatican as a teenager. McCue, now 32 and director of a homeless shelter for teens in Roseburg, was dazzled and depressed by what she saw. “What struck me was, here is this beauty, this grandeur, this gold everything and all around the Vatican were the poorest of the poor,” said McCue, director of Casa de Belen and a parishioner at St. Joseph Catholic Church in Roseburg. When Pope Francis implored church members to care for the poor during his installation ceremony in Vatican City Tuesday, the message resonated with McCue. “I think …

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