"A committee of bishops released a report [Tuesday] saying priests should be allowed to conduct second weddings where there is 'a clear distance of time, of local setting and of relationship' with the previous spouse," reports the Associated Press.

Mario Orantes was jailed for seven months for his suspected involvement in the murder of Roman Catholic bishop Juan Gerardi. Orantes, who was Gerardi's assistant, was released after protestors demanded authorities look at military involvement in the slaying. Now that several military officials have been arrested, the government wants another shot at the AWOL Orantes.

One of the two American nuns who refuse to leave an Orthodox monastery in Jericho told the Associated Press that U.S. officials are negotiating her case "at the highest levels." Palestinian police have evicted other priests and nuns at the request of Yasser Arafat, who acted on the request of Moscow Patriarch Alexy II.

Many news sources, including the Reuters wire service, said he did. But in an apology for "any offense taken," Cardinal Thomas Winning noted, "The word Nazi does not appear at any point in my address and I believe it would be inappropriate, offensive and fatuous to compare the current debate to what happened in Germany in the war years." The controversy is part of a larger issue in Scotland, which is debating the repeal of a law banning the promotion of homosexuality in classrooms.

With the discovery of two burned bodies ...