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• Saints and spinners | Bishops launch campaign for Spanish queen's rehabilitation (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• The saints just keep marching in | In a church that seems to need all the role models it can get, even the saints are stirring a surprising amount of controversy. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Pope makes a virtual visit to Russia | Teleconference in Moscow delights the Roman Catholic faithful. The Orthodox patriarch, however, denounces the event as 'an invasion.' (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Also: Pope speaks to Russians in satellite 'invasion' (Reuters)
  
  
• Also: Pope leads prayers in Moscow by satellite (The Washington Post)
  
  

Abuse:

• Archdiocese nears accord in abuse suits | The Archdiocese of Boston has tentatively agreed to pay $20 million to $30 million to settle scores of cases against a former priest accused of molesting nearly 200 children in six parishes over 30 years. (The New York Times)
  
  
• Sacrifice and celibacy | Beyond correcting the tragic mistakes made in our local church, the broader lesson we draw from these abuses is not that celibacy is no longer meaningful or possible but that we must once again learn how to believe (Kevin R. White, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• A crisis of clergy, not of faith | Far-reaching reform can only take place when lay people have a more powerful voice in church decisions, on both the local and national levels. (Lisa Sowle Cahill, The New York Times)
  
  
• Ouster of priest marks a change in Orange County diocese | Bishop Brown draws praise and criticism for his openness in handling the dismissal of Michael Pecharich, who molested a teen boy 19 years ago. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Diocese free of errant priests, Baltimore cardinal says | Some uneasy in wake of scandal in Boston (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  

Crime and courts:

• Religious zeal infused Yates' lives, testimony shows | Fears of demonic influences and social ills pervaded the home where a woman drowned her children, witnesses say. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Also: Thou shalt be Christian mothers | There was a time in my life that I, too, believed I was a bad mother to my four children. (Dale Koscielny, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Pastor gets life for family murders | Hungarian-born pastor killed several family members and dissolved the remains in drain cleaner. (BBC)
  
  
• Forgery, theft trial opens for ministers | Pastor, son accused of diverting funds for personal gain (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Andersen settles Arizona lawsuit | Auditor agrees to pay $217 million in damages for failing to uncover fraud in Baptist Foundation investment fund. (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Police to monitor churches for robbers | The police in Lagos State have decided to extend the search for criminals to churches and mosques in the state as robbers continue to target Lagos churches (P.M. News, Lagos, Nigeria)
  
  
• Legalities aside, copying puts you on slippery slope | What's wrong with copying CDs (Ken Vaux, Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Rocky finances, unbuilt churches | Local congregations are among creditors trying to recover money paid to a clergyman-builder. (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  

Church life:

• Former temple, now a church—next an eatery? | For $6.5 million, Turner Memorial AME Church is up for sale (Marc Fisher, The Washington Post)
  
  
• Court sides with opponents of AME church | Maryland's second-highest court rules against building a 3,000-seat sanctuary (The Baltimore Sun)
  
  
• Rector is suspended in Episcopal rift | The Rosemont priest violated canon law, the Pa. Diocese said. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Also: Father Moyer starts 'retreat' with a ruckus | Episcopal priest calls six-month suspension "invalid, illegal, unjust and unchristian." (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  
• Also: Episcopal rector suspended | David L. Moyer leads a 19,000-member national conservative movement called Forward in Faith (Associated Press)
  
  

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