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• And as long as we're at it, here's another big story on the subject: Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey said in a lecture last night that Christians should convert Jews. "Put bluntly, is it ever permissible for a Christian to consider Jesus Christ as the Messiah of Israel?" said the leader of the Anglican church. "When I meet with Jewish friends I do not approach them as people to convert. I approach them as people already known and loved by God and therefore respected and esteemed by me. But I do not abandon that desire to introduce them to my faith and the way I see it. However that will come only at the right time, in the right context and usually when my friend takes the first step."

Church and state:

• Short-term fix likely in church fight | Metropolitan King County [Washington] Council appears to support a short-term fix: exempting some churches and schools from a moratorium on new permits that the council adopted two months ago when it couldn't decide the broader issue. (The Seattle Times)
• Presbyterian Church criticizes Malawian president | Eleven-page statement criticizes government initiatives to amend the constitution to allow President Muluzi to stand for a third term in the 2004 elections (BBC)
• Dousing a religious flap | At the urging of his boss, an atheist firefighter at odds with a Christian firefighters group has drafted a new policy aimed at keeping religious and political agendas off the walls of the Colorado Springs Fire Department. (The Gazette, Colorado Springs)
• Bork criticizes courts' assault on religion | "The contribution of law to our cultural collapse is not recognized. Everybody talks about the impact of Hollywood and the media, but I'm here to state that the law is a central element in western culture" (The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)
• Lawsuit over religious zoning law | Land was used by Catholic nuns-in-training and Greek Orthodox monks, but town doesn't want it to be turned into a synagogue and Hebrew school (Associated Press)

Catholicism:

• Over disputed book, Vatican official bars priest from teaching | Theologian Roger Haight, onetime president of the Catholic Theological Society of America and questioned for teaching that non-Christians can get to heaven without Jesus. (The Boston Globe)
• Catholic families feel betrayed by Church | Elite school gets their building (Chicago Tribune)
• Suit: Priest's blood used as relic | A cancer doctor who treated the late Cardinal Terence Cooke is accused in a lawsuit by a dismissed employee of loaning samples of the prelate's blood to patients as the "relic" of a possible saint (Associated Press)

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