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• A media circus in Rome | Vatican and U.S. bishops' officials disagree on how to deal with a deluge of reporters. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Vatican deliberations | Even as American cardinals moved to confront the sex scandals that have so shaken the Roman Catholic Church in the United States, they failed to embrace the kind of disciplinary reforms that would decisively break with past mistakes. (Editorial, The New York Times)
  
  
• 1-strike plan splits group | Top church leaders said they still did not agree on whether to impose such unconditional punishment on all priests who have molested minors. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Cardinals agree on ousting priests for sexual abuse | Recommendations were far murkier than the zero-tolerance policy that had been promised by some cardinals just hours earlier. (The New York Times)
  
  
• When in Rome | Transforming words while abroad into actions at home. (Rod Dreher, National Review Online)
  
  
• Grease the guillotine | We all need the Catholics to clean house. (Dave Shiflett, National Review Online)
  
  
• Get it straight | The hypocrisy of blaming gays for sexual abuse by priests. (William Saletan, Slate.com)
  
  
• Scandal backlash costs Catholic Charities $800G | Boston branch was turned down for nearly $1 million in corporate grants this month because of the church's pedophilia scandal. (Boston Herald)
  
  
• The church and its critics | Think of the irony: A sex-drenched American media culture is now upbraiding the Catholic Church for being too forgiving toward licentious sexual behavior. (Editorial, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Seminarians reaffirm faith | Commitment to the priesthood has only grown stronger as they inherit the church during one of its most difficult trials (Detroit Free Press)

Eastern Orthodox:

• Greek church rejects virus link | The Greek Orthodox Church has angrily dismissed reports in the national media that taking holy communion could spread a mystery virus which has killed three people over the last week. (BBC)
  
  
• Israel refuses to recognize Greek Orthodox patriarch | situation prevents Patriarch Irineos from carrying out many normal functions, including holding a bank account or obtaining a visa for travel (The New York Times)
  
  
• Unity urged for Russian Orthodox | Protesting influence of Catholics in region (The Boston Globe)

Interfaith efforts:

• Panel jokes, hashes out religious issues | Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders discuss perceptions of each other (The Harvard Crimson)
  
  
• Queen to make first visit to mosque | Will also visit Hindu and Sikh temples (The Guardian, London)

Advertising:

• Does burger TV ad inhabit a values-free zone? | Convenience store encourages lying (Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Ads paint new image for cloning | Those opposed to a ban stress medical benefits of cells from lab embryos (The Baltimore Sun)

Other stories of interest

• Who is Benny Hinn? | Televangelist is under scrutiny, but he brushes it off (Associated Press)
  
  
• Hanging with atheists | They are definitely a happier bunch than I expected (John Bloom, UPI)
  
  

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