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U.S. investigates slaying of nun in N.M.
The body of Sister Marguerite Bartz was found Sunday at the convent in Navajo, N.M. A Catholic church spokesman said her home had been broken into and her car had been stolen, CNN reported.
The FBI, which has jurisdiction over the area, said Bartz was killed between Saturday night and Sunday morning. A colleague checked on Bartz after she did not show up as expected for mass Sunday, and found her body.
There was no word on cause of death.
Bartz, a member of the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, had worked in Dorchester, Mass.; Lawtell, La.; Guadalupe Indian Mission in Pena Blanca, N.M.; St. Joseph in Laguna, N.M.; and St. Catherine Indian School in Santa Fe, N.M. before being assigned to St. Berard Church in Navajo in 1999.
"She was known to be a woman always passionate for justice and peace," the diocese said in a statement, "and the life she lived would tell us that she would respond to this incident with a spirit of forgiveness towards whoever is responsible for these acts."
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 11/03/2009
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God has taken another of his ANGELS home!
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