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• In Virginia, a tuition tax credit is more likely | State constitution has higher wall between church and state (The Washington Post)
• An un-American pledge | Despite the outraged claims that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has banned the Pledge of Allegiance in its decision that the inclusion of "one nation under God" violates the First Amendment's separation of church and state, the pledge is still alive if spoken without that clause in an official governmental setting (Nat Hentoff)
• Rulings on religion may have little impact | Religious institutions and their adherents may obtain an incremental benefit from the court's narrower construction of the Constitution's prohibition pertaining to aid to religion. But those same groups and individuals stand to lose much more if the Constitution's guarantee that they can practice their religion without government interference is read in a similarly constrained manner (Avi Schick, Newsday)

• Pledge follows Bush to church | President Bush joined more than 100 parishioners at a seaside church yesterday in reciting the Pledge of Allegiance during services, a defiant dig at a recent San Francisco court ruling on the pledge's "under God" phrase (The Washington Times)
• How 'under God' got in there | With Eisenhower Present, D.C. Pastor's Sermon Sparked Quest to Change Pledge (The Washington Post)
• The irony behind lessons of secularism | In our effort to win a war against these religious warriors, we wrap the cloak of religion even tighter around us. (Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune)
• Pious pledgers all | America is a famously religious nation. That is a fact. Religion really needs no help from the government—and that is a fact also (Richard Cohen, The Washington Post)
• It was no 'scare' | Supporters of taking out the phrase "under God" from the Pledge of Allegiance have come up with a new twist in their arsenal of arguments: It was part and parcel of the McCarthyite witch-hunt of the 1950s, when America faced a phony Red menace and the real dangers came from right-wing proponents of a new conformity (Ronald Radosh, New York Post)
• When patriotism wasn't religious | Perhaps the next step for those who identify patriotism with religion will be to try to amend the Constitution itself by mentioning God (Arthur Schlesinger Jr, The New York Times)
• God & man at the founding | Secularists are wrong on religion (Stanley Kurtz, National Review Online)

• 500- year wait for Mass | A church—believed to be the smallest in England —is to hold its first Catholic Mass since the Reformation (BBC)
• Poll: 58 percent of Mexicans would prefer ailing Pope to stay at home | 31 percent say he should come (Associated Press)
• Pope struggles through short speech (Associated Press)
• Vatican threatens to excommunicate women 'priests' | Austrian, German and U.S. women were ordained by Argentine bishop Romulu Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community (Associated Press)

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