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Church life:

• Churches try to retrieve grand trappings of past | Catholics and others seek to correct the sins of the 1960s and 1970s when a renewal movement sought to update worship and simplify architecture. (The Sun, Baltimore)
• Taking a leap of faith, all the way from India | After decades as 'spiritual nomads,' a group of Indian Christians in the Baltimore area finally has its own worship space. (The Sun, Baltimore)
• Community relations 'nerve racking' for the churches | Irish report asks if churches are prepared to become involved in community relations work "as more than mere political correctness" (The Belfast Telegraph)
• Friendships form as black and white churches integrate | A Cypress, California, congregation joins a small number of ministries that add color to today's monochromatic churches. (Los Angeles Times)
• Eyes that see the glory | Churches, artists coming to terms again (The Dallas Morning News)
• Evangelist puts fear of God into pilferers | Liverpool Cathedral has been swamped with hotel bath robes and library books after a preacher urged his congregation to return stolen property. (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• Vicar in tune with karaoke hymn-singing | After organist left, church got desperate (The Daily Telegraph, London)

Pentecostalism:

• And on the 50th Day | What Pentecost means—and not just to Pentecostals. (Edith Blumhofer, The Wall Street Journal)
• A movement born in a stable | Pentecostalism, the second-largest segment of Christendom, began in L.A. Long-stalled efforts to memorialize the site are moving forward. (Los Angeles Times)
• Global convention testifies to Pentecostalism's revival | A century after a one-eyed preacher in Los Angeles fired up the Pentecostal flame that has now spread to half a billion worshipers worldwide, several thousand believers from more than 40 countries are congregating here for the World Pentecostal Conference. (Los Angeles Times)

Catholicism:

• Why saints go marching on | The present Pope has made more saints than all his predecessors put together. However medieval it might seem, the idea of sainthood still exerts a powerful pull (The Times, London)
• Online evangelization yes, confessions no | "It will never be possible," says Vatican's Pontifical Council for Social Communication (Reuters)
• Mother Teresa to be saint 'within months' | So says archbishop in charge of investigating her cause in India (The Daily Telegraph, London)
• Ordination of O'odham deacons is historic first | Religious power shift on the reservation shifts from non-tribal priests and nuns to the American Indians. (The Arizona Daily Star)
• Catholic prelates split on use of media | At last week's "extraordinary consistory," cardinals seemed unable to decide how much they could say in explaining, through the news media to the global church, what they discussed as they considered the challenges facing the church. (The Boston Globe)
• Race issues surface in school's bid for church league | A mostly black school's rejection from a mostly white Catholic athletic league has ignited controversy in Chicago, a city that is both heavily Roman Catholic and in many ways still simmering with deeply rooted racial divisions (The New York Times)
• Also: Catholic sports league accused of racism | Parishes denied membership to a black church's grammar school, citing concerns about the safety of players (Associated Press)
• Also: Archdiocese steps in after league rejects black school | Office for Racial Justice will promote reconciliation between St. Sabina and the conference (Chicago Tribune)
• A man of papal quality | Could Chicago's Francis Cardinal George be the next pope? (George Will, The Washington Post)

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