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• Will pastor's 'divine order' meet its match in bureaucrats? | Just where is it appropriate for a church congregation to meet? (Dana Parsons, Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Pop culture:

• Conservative groups seek FCC probe of Fox network | Focus on the Family, National Association of Evangelicals, others oppose Boston Public (Reuters)
  
  
• Buying like there's no tomorrow | Apocalyptic science fiction series becomes a long-running smash hit (ABCNews.com)
  
  

Religion and computers:

• Monks confess to spamming habit | Russian Orthodox monastery sent thousands of e-mails soliciting donations (Ananova)
  
  
• Hot-synching with a heavenly presence | A growing number of people are finding that pocket-size computers are useful for religious purposes (The New York Times)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Spanish gays urged to leave the Church | Spain's leading gay organization has urged homosexuals to leave the Catholic Church in protest at the suspension of a priest who came out in a magazine last week. (BBC)
  
  
• Earlier: Gay Spaniard stripped of priesthood | The Church said it was acting against Father Jose Mantero for abandoning his post and breaking his vow of celibacy (Reuters)
  
  
• Pastors urged to discuss sex issues | Church members need help, says director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender and Sexuality at Vanderbilt University (Fort Worth Star-Telegram)
  
  

Catholicism:

• At N.J. parish, all Latin all the time | Completely Tridentine parishes are extremely rare (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• The sins of the fathers | By now, it's obvious that the church has suffered a great loss of moral authority. It can't recoup that loss until it deals convincingly with the terrible evils wrought by its priests. (John Leo, U.S. News & World Report)
  
  
• Unholy crisis | After more sex-abuse scandals, what's next for the Catholic Church? (U.S. News & World Report)
  
  
• Six priests suspended after claims of sex abuse | Suspensions come two weeks after Cardinal Bernard F. Law, in announcing a policy to report past accusations of abuse, said there were no active priests in the archdiocese who had been accused of that (The New York Times)
  
  

Church of England:

• Britons 'spiritually hungry' says Britain's former foreign secretary | Douglas Hurd opposes disestablishing church (BBC)
  
  
• The institution that invented the 'mission statement' now badly needs one | The Church of England has not made the best or most imaginative use of its privileged position. (David Rogers, The Times, London)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Dinner on deadline | Washington's Christian press corps. (Fred Barnes, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Arthur Andersen and the Baptists | Enron's auditor is no stranger to accounting disasters — including one of the largest religious foundation bankruptcies in the history of the U.S. (Terry Greene Sterling, Salon.com)
  
  
• Museum refuses to return Ethiopian sacred relics | The British Museum has rejected a plea from an Ethiopian cleric to return sacred artifacts, saying a 250-year-old Act of Parliament prevented it from doing so. (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Pentecostal progress for the long run | An interview with David Martin, author of Pentecostalism: The World Their Parish (UPI)
  
  
• Rwandan genocide priest surrenders | Human rights associations say he was behind one of the most horrifying incidents in the Rwandan genocide—the destruction by bulldozers of the church at Nyange and the 2,000 Tutsis who had taken refuge inside it. (BBC)
  
  
• Facing suit, Hare Krishna temples eye bankruptcy | Abuse victims say religion trying to reduce payments (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Also: Hare Krishnas to file Chapter 11 (Associated Press)
  
  

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