"They want somebody who can carry this idea of new evangelization, relighting the missionary fires of the church and actually make it work, not just lay it out in theory," said John L. Allen, a Vatican expert at the National Catholic Reporter and author of many books on the papacy.
The Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, which has run continuously for 120 years, scaled back its schedule by more than two-thirds because of the Missionary Ridge fire in June near Durango, though the fire did not reach the tracks.
The Missionary Ridge fire near Durango in southwestern Colorado has burned 18,000 acres.
They have all been set since June 9, the day the Missionary Ridge fire was started; its cause is being investigated.
On 21 July 1561, a crowd of indigenous farmers cried out in the town square of Maní, Mexico, as a Franciscan missionary set fire to dozens of fragile Maya books, or codices.
The Missionary Ridge Fire consumes more than 72,000 acres north of Durango, killing one firefighter, destroying 56 homes and leaving burn patterns still visible on the slopes of the Animas Valley.
Although the contractors -- employees of the Aviation Development Corporation of Montgomery, Ala., and working under contract to the Central Intelligence Agency -- apparently tried to call off the fighter from pursuing the missionary plane or firing on it, their efforts proved futile.
The lead actor is making love to one of his mistresses in the missionary position when terrorists fire a missile at the embassy.
If their missionary zeal recalls early Arcade Fire, so does the scrappy rock of next month's debut, Go Tell Fire to the Mountain (out 13 June), recorded in a disused church in Manchester and due to be released on their own label.
The Hayman fire and the Missionary Ridge fire near Durango were so broad and fierce last week that gusts of oven-hot air rising at superhighway speeds spawned thunderstorms and "fire whirls," short-lived little cousins of tornados generated by clashing hot and cool air.
