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Brethren, let us acknowledge our sins, and so prepare ourselves to celebrate the sacred mysteries.

Conservatives in Argentina accused him of undermining historical traditions they held sacred, while reformers hoped for more profound changes.

The three members of the self-proclaimed ‘sun cream brigade’ have made the pilgrimage across the Atlantic to perform at music’s sacred grounds in Indio on Friday.

Francis, meanwhile, continued his anthropological wanderings, carrying whatever insights or regrets he gained from that night into his studies of other cultures' sacred rituals.

In that faith, autopsies generally are not performed because bodies are believed to be sacred and should not be tampered with after death.