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		<title>Church shows how to forgive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A year after shooting, members have learned compassion, pastor says
Brookfield - Last year&#8217;s tragic rampage during a Living Church of God worship service has taught the congregation about compassion - including for gunman Terry Ratzmann, a pastor said Thursday in marking the anniversary of the Sheraton hotel massacre.
&#8220;Our brethren have learned from this that everyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prosecutors unable to find motive for slaying of 7 at Wisconsin church</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE &#8212; Prosecutors ended their investigation Tuesday into a shooting at a Wisconsin church service without determining why the gunman carried out a vendetta against the pastor from Gurnee and his family before shooting eight others and killing himself.
Waukesha County District Attorney Paul Bucher told the Associated Press that it was unclear what specifically drove [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Motives remain a mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[People who knew the shy computer `nerd&#8217; can&#8217;t reconcile the churchgoer with the man who killed 7 near Milwaukee
Two weeks after Terry Ratzmann shot to death seven people before killing himself during a church service, his friends struggled to connect the gentle gardener they knew with the madman who took aim at the pastor, his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Killings shed light on church</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctrine shift in &#8217;90s had shattering effect
Two decades ago, as Terry Ratzmann was embracing the small Christian community upon which he left his fatal mark this month, a spiritual earthquake was beginning to shake the foundation of the Worldwide Church of God he had entered. 
In a series of stunning, rapid changes considered without precedent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Funerals bring grace, peace</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Churchgoers honor Ratzmann&#8217;s &#8216;good&#8217;
Terry Ratzmann was laid to rest quietly Friday, at a private service emphasizing forgiveness and attended by a few dozen fellow church members, including some survivors of his shooting rampage. 
About half of the 75 people who attended were from the local Living Church of God congregation that Ratzmann sprayed with bullets [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shooter&#8217;s mother says he disagreed with new church pastor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MILWAUKEE - A man who fatally shot seven fellow church members and then killed himself had a history of depression and disagreed with his pastor, his mother told a medical examiner.
Shirley Ratzmann said her 44-year-old son, Terry Ratzmann, had a history of depression &#8220;relating to job problems for the last couple of years,&#8221; but had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church official calls killing spree a &#8217;satanic&#8217; act</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Something tragically wrong&#8217; in Ratzmann&#8217;s life, minister says
A Living Church of God leader said in Milwaukee Thursday that Terry Ratzmann&#8217;s killing spree was a satanic act performed by a normally friendly man.
John Ogwyn, a minister and spokesman for the 7,000-member church, said he didn&#8217;t know what prompted Ratzmann to fire into his congregation during a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rampage Puts Spotlight on a Church Community</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[When a parishioner went on a shooting rampage during a church service in the Milwaukee suburbs this past weekend, his inexplicable violence put a spotlight on the Living Church of God, a tenacious community of about 7,000 believers that has struggled through a series of crises over the last 20 years, ever since the death [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church role in shootings questioned</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strict beliefs could have upset gunman, some members say
SOUTH MILWAUKEE, Wis. &#8212; After the first wake Wednesday for a victim of the shooting rampage at the Living Church of God prayer service, some current and former members of the small Christian flock said strict traditions could have contributed to setting off the gunman.
Terry Ratzmann, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police rule out church sermon as possible motive in hotel slayings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[WAUSAU, Wis. (AP) &#8212; Investigators trying to figure out why a man opened fire during a church service last weekend, killing seven parishioners and himself, effectively ruled out the possibility Wednesday that he was set off by something he heard in a sermon two weeks earlier.
Terry Ratzmann, 44, went on the shooting rampage at a [...]]]></description>
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