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• Vatican weighs reaction to accusations of molesting by clergy | Vatican response has been so low-key that a surprising number of the Vatican rank and file are still only dimly aware of the crisis in the American Catholic Church (The New York Times)
  
  
• Two paths, no easy solution on abusive priests | While one town made headlines by removing priests, another quietly moved them around (The New York Times)
  
  
• Sex cases may cost church $100m | The estimated $30 million to $40 million already paid to victims over the last decade plus the $40 million for the pending cases will make Boston's the costliest priest abuse scandal in the history of the Catholic Church in the United States. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Priests' victims need more than apologies | It's not too late (Editorial, Boston Herald)
  
  
• Child advocacy group calls for Law to step down | Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty unequivocal in calling for archbishop's resignation (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Law looks to rebuild public trust | Investigative office will be tripled (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• An accuser's quest for recognition | The priest Steve Lynch accuses is dead, and Lynch appears to be the only person who has alleged abuse by him. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Maine parish agonizes over a priest's confession (The New York Times)
  
  
• Los Angeles cardinal removes priests involved in pedophilia cases (The New York Times)
  
  
• American church forced to sack paedophile priests (The Guardian)
  
  
• Archdiocese told police of 6 abuse cases | Two of those six priests were arrested. Other cases were too old or involved people who refused to come forward (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Child abuse scandal forces US church to confront its demons | Catholic cardinal under fire amid claims that he hid the truth about pedophile priests for decades (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Archdiocese to yield list of sex accusers (The New York Times)
  
  
• Church to release data | Archdioceses agrees to waive confidentiality (The Boston Globe)
  
  

Church life:

• Five-pointed star to stay on church | Local complains that it's satanic symbol (East Anglian Daily Times, Ipswich, U.K.)
  
  
• Churches could 'double as discos' | Archbishop of Canterbury seeks multiple uses in exchange for government funding.(BBC)
  
  
• Also: "This Disco (Used To Be A Cute Cathedral)," (Steve Taylor song, 1985)
  
  
• Putting the cat among religions | Every Sunday, parishioners in Hardingstone are ushered into church by an unusual escort...a fluffy, black cat (Northampton Chronicle & Echo, U.K.)
  
  
• Doesn't anybody stay in one place anymore? | Nearly one-third have changed congregations in the past five years (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• With God and a gun on his side | Father Cirilo Nacorda of Basilan isn't taking chances (The Age, Australia)
  
  
• Earlier Catholic priest turns to guns to ward off Philippines' Abu Sayyaf (Associated Press, June 8, 2001)
  
  
• Churches struggle with Sunday morning segregation | Decades after Martin Luther King Jr. declared Sunday mornings the most segregated hour in America, some churches are experiencing more diversity in their congregations, yet many continue to remain predominantly black or white. (The Wilson [N.C.] Daily Times, see original)
  
  
• Coral Springs pastor moonlights as model | David Hughes is senior pastor of Coral Baptist, one of South Florida's fastest-growing congregations. He's also a dues-paying professional actor who has been pitchman for several multinational companies (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Yes, God is everywhere, even at the local mall | 100 of the nation's nearly 1,200 enclosed malls have some religious presence (The New York Times)
  
  

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