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

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

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