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Church life:

• Religious activity falling to pre-attack levels, say polls | U.S. economy jumped back to being the top priority of Americans, though their sense of "alienation" from people of power and wealth in the country has dropped (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Cathedrals draw up plans to charge tourists | Westminster Abbey cited as model (The Independent, London)
  
  
• Looking to old cathedrals for inspiration to beautify churches today | A review of Ugly As Sin: Why They Changed Our Churches from Sacred Places to Meeting Places—and How We Can Change Them Back Again by Michael S. Rose (Emily Oren, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Black Presbyterians join statewide recognition of ex-slave-turned-pastor | Pennsylvania celebrates Henry Highland Garnet Day (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Willow Creek to explore religions of world | Norman Geisler is main speaker (Chicago Tribune)
  
  

Abuse:

• Facing a sin of the fathers | Is it something about being a Catholic priest? The headlines make it seem so. But the data is just not there to answer that question, or many of the other uncomfortable questions that arise on the subject. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Celibacy doesn't cause child abuse | The church's pedophile problem, as I view it after years of dealing with priests sent to psychiatric treatment centers and sometimes prisons, lies not in its celibacy policy but in the way priests are educated in seminaries. (James J. Gill, The Hartford Courant)
  
  
• Boston priests' sex scandal causes ripples across U.S. | People have come forward to tell of abuses by priests in other dioceses, and some dioceses have begun releasing the names of sexual abusers that they long kept secret (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church moved accused priests | Scandal reveals how molesters were transferred (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• New Hampshire diocese names 14 priests accused of abuse (The New York Times)
  
  
• Priest-sex scandal expands to N.H. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Governor apologizes over sex scandal | Queen Elizabeth's representative in Australia, the Governor-General, Peter Hollingworth, is to apologise on national television for failing to help victims of child abuse. (BBC)
  
  

Catholicism:

• Vatican to open some WWII-era files on Pius XII | Scholars examining the pope's stance on the Holocaust say the disclosure could answer only two of their 47 questions (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Also: Vatican to hold off opening Pope Pius XII wartime archives | Prewar archives will partly open next year, but documents on Pius XII's controversial World War II pontificate won't be available for at least three more years. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Also: Vatican to release WWII papers (Associated Press)
  
  
• Dispute precedes Juan Diego campaign | Skeptics claim saint-to-be was mythical figure (Houston Chronicle)
  
  

Television:

• Special Doc fills its Rx | Steven Curtis Chapman guest stars in episode about show's writer's life (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Also: Pax TV prescribes Doc for family friendly viewing (The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Donor pays off debt at Christian TV channel | An anonymous saviour has backed plans by John Fashanu, the former footballer, to create "one of the biggest" Christian television networks in Europe.  (Financial Times)
  
  

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