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Nun murdered at Navajo reservation November 03, 2009

A Sister of the Blessed Sacrament was murdered at her residence on a Navajo reservation on Halloween night. Sister Marguerite Bartz, 64, had served in Navajo, New Mexico, since 1999.

“She was known to be a woman always passionate for justice and peace-- 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,” according to the diocesan web site.

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• Sister Marguerite Bartz, SBS, Found Dead (Diocese of Gallup)
• FBI investigates nun's death on Navajo reservation (AP)

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• Posted by: joeg3608 - Nov. 03, 2009 5:29 PM ET USA

  May God love her and her companions-and her killer. Let hnim/her be forgiven

• Posted by: normnuke - Nov. 03, 2009 3:06 PM ET USA

  This is strange even for the diocese of Gallup. Why is the FBI involved?