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Catholicism:

• Holy smoke! Vatican bans puffing on the job | A law approved by Pope John Paul and made public on Thursday will ban smoking in nearly all closed spaces inside the 108-acre city-state as of July 1 (Reuters)
  
  
• Women plan Catholic ordination | Leaders threaten excommunication (The Daily Telegraph, Surry Hills, NSW, Australia)
  
  
• Clerics' sex reporting bill proves unexpectedly complicated | What seemed last week to be nothing more than a seed of doubt over a bill that would require priests to report suspected sexual abuse has grown into a thorny legal question about how to avoid discouraging sexually active teenagers from seeking health care or counseling (The New York Times)

Other articles of interest:

• Bitter test of a flock's faith | Congregation struggles to endure damage to church (Newsday)
  
  
• Group turns prayers into houses in Habitat for Humanity project | Muslims, Jews, and Catholics who gathered after 9/11 will join with Protestants in suburban Seattle to build houses (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Proving ground | A seminary campus appears tranquil, but it's a rough-and-tumble time for students forced to confront the hard issues of faith (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Religion News in Brief | Rowan Williams, Southern Baptist abuse, Salvation Army dispute, Henry Lyons returns, and other stories (Associated Press)
  
  
• Jerry Falwell's kingdom | If he gets his way in federal court this summer, the conservative pastor will leave his most visible legacy—a master-planned Christian community where members of his flock can live from "birth to antiquity." (Associated Press)
  
  
• Spotlight dims on local man | But nearly three months after making the astonishing claim that his father was the true assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., the Rev. Ronald Denton Wilson of Keystone Heights remains a commodity for the media, if not the FBI (The Gainesville [Fla.] Sun)

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