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• Also: Church under fire for denying Pell accuser legal funding | A Catholic church inquiry into sexual abuse allegations against Sydney Archbishop George Pell is under criticism for not treating the accuser fairly (ABC News, Australia)
  
  
• Voice of the Faithful is not the church | The scandals in the Catholic Church have created a free-for-all for those who wish to vent against the church. (John Mallon, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Catholics say diocese policy assumes guilt | Many Catholics fear that a proposed policy for handling allegations of child sex abuse weighs too heavily against priests, church employees and volunteers who face such accusations in the future. (The Plain Dealer)
  
  
• Cardinal's accuser charged with extortion | Loren Mitchell Saffels, 34, told Stockton police in June that he had been molested in 1982 by Mahony, who was bishop of Stockton at the time. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Panel on abuse drops 2 clerics | The nation's Roman Catholic bishops said yesterday they have restructured a committee that drafts policies on how dioceses should discipline priests who molest children. (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Charge of sex abuse levied on mentor | Steven E. Kuehne was cohost of Roc House Cafe, a weekly, hourlong show that airs Friday nights and features Christian music videos (The Augusta [Ga.] Chronicle)
  
  
• Vicar wanted to French kiss me, says parishioner | The Rev Harry Brown, 49, priest-in-charge of Crosscrake and Preston Patrick, near Kendal, was accused by a woman to have tried to kiss her as they sat on a sofa at her home. (The Times, London)
  
  
• Also: Sacked priest denies 'French kiss' claim (BBC)
  
  
• And lo my flock, don't be brothel creeper like me | A minister who was caught with a prostitute during a police raid on a brothel will return to the pulpit next month. (Daily Record, Scotland)
  
  
• Also: Ban on brothel minister is lifted (The Scotsman)
  
  
• 'Silentlambs' speak out about sex abuse | Several former Jehovah's Witnesses stood outside a Kingdom Hall church near Green Lake yesterday with a tiny toy lamb whose mouth was covered with black electrician's tape. (The Seattle Times)
  
  
• Disarray as Pell lawyer quits and church denies funds to accuser | Legal teams on both sides crumble under pressure. (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Jesuits to pay $7.5 million to 2 men who contended abuse | The settlement, among the largest of its kind in a growing number of such cases, was reached on Wednesday after about a year of negotiations (The New York Times)

Other stories of interest:

• Midwest director of Jews for Jesus ticketed for car's inscription | Police officer who issued the parking ticket says lettering makes it a commercial vehicle (Chicago Sun-Times)
  
  
• Controversial church figure resigns | Marianne Williamson, spiritual director of Warren's Renaissance Unity, will move on. (The Detroit News)
  
  
• Nation mourns passing of Archbishop Samuel Carter | Was first Jamaican bishop in Roman Catholic Church (Jamaica Gleaner)
  
  
• In defense of Rowan Williams | Williams' conservative opponents have judged the man not for what he has said about, for example, the resurrection, prayer, the virgin birth or charity, but because of his stance on the Gay issue (Michael Coren, The National Post, Canada)
  
  
• Embracing that 'city upon a hill' | Societies do not always live up to their ideals, but a society without ideals is hollow (Charles C. Euchner and William M. Fowler, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Scientists wrangle with questions of faith | Discussions of religious faith have in recent years become increasingly friendly terrain for scientists (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Demonstrators to ask Sharon to reopen Temple Mount | Judaism's holiest site has been off-limits to non-Muslims for nearly two years (The Jerusalem Post)
  
  
• Boy shot and killed after pointing BB gun at officers | A 14-year-old boy who said he was possessed by demons went to a church for help but was shot by police. (Associated Press)
  
  
• Singing, an old age elixir | But elderly don't sing in church as often as they used to (Health24, South Africa)

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