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	<title>Religion News Blog &#187; Caritas of Birmingham</title>
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		<title>Judge: California man must pay Alabama religious group $2 million</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Dec 2006 21:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Shelby County circuit judge has ordered a California millionaire to pay the Caritas religious group $2 million for violating a confidential April 2005 settlement of an earlier lawsuit.]]></description>
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		<title>1,000 pray with visionary in Shelby County field</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 1,000 people gathered in a Shelby County field Wednesday night to pray with a visionary who reports visions of the Virgin Mary.
Marija Lunetti, who claims to have been visited by the mother of Jesus every day since 1981, said the Virgin Mary appeared to her wearing a gray dress and a long veil. Lunetti [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pilgrims visit a visionary in a Shelby County field</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Agnes Totten of Belfast, Northern Ireland, has visited what she considers some of the world&#8217;s most important religious shrines: in Rome, Jerusalem, Fatima, Lourdes, Medjugorje, and Shelby County, Ala.
Totten and several hundred other pilgrims knelt and prayed in a Shelby County field Monday with Marija Lunetti, who is known around the world as one of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Confidential settlement ends Caritas suits</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A confidential settlement has been reached in a lawsuit against the Caritas religious group by former members who claimed they were brainwashed and drained of assets.
The settlement, mediated by Birmingham lawyer Arthur Hanes Jr., also settled similar suits involving Caritas in federal and state courts in California and Florida.
Terry Colafrancesco of Shelby County, near Birmingham, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediation may end dispute at Caritas</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Patrick J. Flynn said the founder of a Shelby County religious compound no longer has any control over him, but other people should be warned. 
Last week Flynn was sitting 3 feet away from Terry Colafrancesco, founder of the Caritas Community, during depositions in a lawsuit filed by some of his former followers.
Colafrancesco had his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediation ordered in Caritas lawsuit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leader must answer two days of questions
A Shelby County judge is trying to put a 3-year-old lawsuit that alleges brainwashing by a religious group on a faster track by ordering the principals to submit to mediation.
Also, Caritas of Birmingham leader Terry Colafrancesco must answer two days of questions from lawyers representing former Caritas residents who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Religious war in county courthouse</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2004 19:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[REDWOOD CITY&#8211; A bizarre religious battle between an alleged Alabama cult and a man hell-bent on its destruction is burning its way through the San Mateo County Courthouse, with both sides suing each other for wild slander, printed allegations of attempted murder, mafia involvement, money laundering, weapons dealing and spiritual chicanery.
The unusual case involves a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge weighs contempt filing in Caritas suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:22:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A contempt motion and the specter of a fatal airplane crash are the latest developments in a lawsuit against a Shelby County religious community and its founder by former residents and parents of current residents. 
The community of Caritas grew out of purported visions of the Virgin Mary in a former cow pasture near Sterrett. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Catholic bishop defended group now accused as cult</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:23:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[COLUMBIANA, Ala. &#8212; A Roman Catholic bishop privately defended an Alabama religious community against claims it was a cult four years before ex-residents filed suit accusing the group of mind control and fraud.
In a letter, Bishop David E. Foley described Caritas of Birmingham as a gathering of &#8220;devout Catholics, sharing a common interest in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Promoter for Mary vision sued in harassment case</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent lawsuit in Florida is the latest legal volley against Caritas of Birmingham, an organization based in Shelby County that promotes visions of the Virgin Mary.  
Phillip J. Kronzer, a philanthropist who has spent millions of dollars crusading to expose Caritas as a religious cult, has filed a lawsuit in Broward County Circuit [...]]]></description>
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