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• Panel criticizes holdout dioceses | Fort Worth, two others won't follow Episcopal policy on female priests (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Breaking up's not hard to do | Religious divisions often center on 'Who makes the rules?' (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Protestant denominations face internal squabbles | Islam isn't the only major religion facing inner tensions. (William McKenzie, The Dallas Morning News)
  
  

Church life:

• Africans fill churches that celebrate wealth | Pentecostal churches, often led by men influenced by American evangelists who preach success through prayer, are drawing huge crowds in African cities. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Will the circle be unbroken? | Divided over the flag, a congregation of pacifists struggles to regain its sense of unity. (Mother Jones)
  
  
• Church membership swells | Area congregations alter schedules, plan major expansions (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• St. Sabina pulls out of league | Parish accuses group officials of `lack of integrity' (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Also: Team leaves white league in silence instead of cheers | Parents and coaches at St. Sabina overwhelmingly agreed to quit the nearly all-white Southside Catholic Conference, the athletic league they had fought so hard to join. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Answering the silent call | Technology is giving parents peace of mind while they seek peace for their souls. (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Church extends capital schedule | Archdiocese spreads fund-raising plan (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Fallen fresco raises questions | 13-year-old work of art was meant to last centuries (The News & Observer, Raleigh, North Carolina)
  
  
• Church group builds hall as an act of faith | In a kind of 21st century barn raising, 700 volunteers are constructing the building. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

Money & business:

• Religion in the workplace | What religious practices are allowed in the workplace is not that clear-cut (The Kansas City Star)
  
  
• The 'poor man's philanthropist,' giving it all he's got | Thomas Cannon gives away money in $1,000 chunks (Phil McCombs, The Washington Post)
  
  
• St Benedict could do business a favor | Monk is the subject of a new book that aims to inject Christian principles into modern big business. (The Daily Telegraph)
  
  

Ten Commandments:

• Rutherford latest Tennessee county to vote on posting Ten Commandments | Measure likely to pass (The Tennesseean)
  
  
• Thou shalt appeal | Chester County commissioners unanimously approved a resolution declaring Judge Steward Dalzell's order to remove the Ten Commandments plaque from the Chester County Courthouse wall to be "in error" (Daily Local News, West Chester, Penn.)
  
  

Evolution:

• Critics: No science in intelligent design | The Ohio Board of Education hosted a pro-and-con debate before an audience of 1,200 on Monday as it considers whether to include intelligent design in the state's revamped suggested science curriculum (The Cincinnati Post)
  
  
• 6 days of creation: the search of evidence | A widening movement against evolutionary theory seeks scientific support (Newsday)
  
  

Abuse:

• Assaults in a cloak of faith | Fake spiritual healers in immigrant communities prey on women and girls in hundreds of sexual attacks, police say. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Insurance won't cover abuse suits, archdiocese says | The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Boston acknowledged that its insurance would not cover settlements of suits against priests accused of sexually abusing children. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Antidote to abuse | This time the settlement was not done to prolong the cover-up of archdiocesan officials' complicity in Geoghan's actions, but was part of a disclosure process that is essential to ending the scandal of clerical abuse. (Editorial, The Boston Globe)
  
  

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