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• Archbishop steps down | His successor, Rowan Williams, will be formally installed in February (BBC)
  
  
• Rowan, Jesus, and St Paul | The question now in modern Anglicanism is whose tradition matters most? (Hywel Williams, The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Archbishop in gay foster care row | The incoming leader of the Church of England has been criticized for "endorsing immorality" after it emerged a gay priest in his own diocese fostered a 15-year-old boy (BBC)
  
  
• Stuck in the past, losing members and ageing fast |The parallels between the Church of England and the Conservative Party are eerily close (Mary Ann-Sieghart, The Times, London)

Catholicism:

• Fans lobby for Catholic TV network | Some area residents have joined a campaign to pressure AT&T Broadband into reversing its decision to reduce programming time for a EWTN (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Second Vatican Council reaffirmed papal rule | A Catholic cardinal said yesterday that the reformist Second Vatican Council upheld the authority of the papacy, hierarchy and Rome as the "true church," rather than liberalizing those beliefs, as commonly believed (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Mahony's top chiefs all resign | Budget cuts at the L.A. Archdiocese as well as personal factors appear to push the five managers to step down in joint announcement (Los Angeles Times)

Other stories of interest:

• Report: Russian Orthodox patriarch hospitalized | The 73-year-old patriarch was diagnosed with hypertension caused by a sharp change in atmospheric pressure (Associated Press)
  
  
• Amish plaintiff in religious freedom case dies | Gideon Hershberger spent a week in the Fillmore County jail in 1988 after refusing to pay a fine or perform community service for failing to display an orange slow-moving-vehicle triangle on the back of his black horse-drawn buggy (Duluth News Tribune)
  
  
• First Sabbath flight arrives on Scotland's staunchly religious Isle of Lewis | Religious leaders urge boycott (Associated Press)
  
  
• Assemblies of God leader dies | Philip Hogan is credited with sparking the birth of the World Assemblies of God Fellowship (KOLR, Springfield, Mo.)
  
  
• 'Jesus' bills fill libraries | Counterfeit bills with quotes from the Bible and other pro-Christian literature are being stuffed in books at public libraries throughout Maine (Kennebec Journal)
  
  
• Diocese was right, but don't bother asking why | While parents lined up outside a courtroom, indignant that the church would deny their children the sacrament of football, the priest who annulled the season stood before a panel of astonished reporters and demonstrated how a man can do the right thing the wrong way (Dennis Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)

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