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• Secrets, celibacy and the church | Pope John Paul II's failure to confront the pathology of sexual secrecy is his papacy's deepest flaw (Jason Berry, The New York Times)
  
  
• Grabbing publicity by the collar | have seen widespread, well-deserved condemnation of the predators, not of their actions. (John Moody, The Washington Times)
  
  

Other articles of interest:

• 'Sex misconduct': evangelist sacked | Pat Mesiti was one of Australia's most prominent and internationally lauded evangelists (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• A new Christendom | We are currently living through one of the transforming moments in the history of religion worldwide (Philip Jenkins, The Chronicle of Higher Education)
  
  
• Spiritual directors help to focus faith | Across the country, the practice of searching for God through the guidance of a trained counselor is seeing a renaissance. (The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.)
  
  
• This fight's over | Lessons from fiery fundamentalist Carl McIntire (Joel Belz, World)
  
  
• Creed all about it | Why do we fear fundamentalists? Because we're scared of believers (Cristina Odone, The Observer, London)
  
  
• Southern Baptist Convention urges hotel chain boycott over bash | Howard Johnson hosted sadomasochism party (Associated Press)
  
  
• Religious revival | If the intellectual fashion of the society around you is to stress materialism and to assert that there is no truth, only opinion, it is hardly surprising that young would-be rebels should seek spiritual answers and universal truths (Editorial, The National Post, Canada)
  
  
• Church visitor causes a big flap | Wild turkey finds a perch on Beacon Hill rooftop (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Jewish believers in Jesus live between two solitudes | Messianic Jews feel isolated by both Jewish and the Christian communities (The Daily News, Halifax, N.S., Canada)
  
  
• God beyond the glossies | Philippine religious publications have lately become more enterprising and energetic in competing with their secular counterparts for a slice of the burgeoning magazine market (Financial Times, London/The Daily Inquirer, Manila; also available here)
  
  

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