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• Motive for massacre | It's not about "the West." It's about religious beliefs (Paul Marshall, The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• Abducted priest found dead in Congo | Jean Guth, was kidnapped on March 31 by a resurgent rebel militia known as the Ninjas (BBC)
  
  
• Intolerance kills | Religious hatred is taking a terrible toll, and not just overseas (The Florida Times-Union, Jacksonville)
  
  
• Ivory Coast conflict traps local missionaries | Dave and Kathy Roslansky pray for their safe return (Daily Globe, Worthington, Minn.)

Sexuality and gender:

• An Rx for teen sex | Doctors are joining the abstinence movement. Here's why they're now telling kids, "Just say no" (Time)
  
  
• Youth pastor resigns over porn | "I was living life in isolation," Matthew Lomenick told his church. "I don't know how it affects other people, but I know how [pornography] was affecting me. And it was eating me up. It robbed from me and my wife." (The Miami Herald)
  
  
• Gay men take cause to Falwell's door | Couple finds kindness, if not acceptance, in evangelist's church. (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Pastors protest paper's same-sex union policy | Publisher affirms decision to accept paid announcements (The Charlotte Observer)
  
  
• Church sign too, uh, explicit for some | Critics say sermon title not appropriate for kids (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
  
  
• Painting of topless woman at restaurant offends Christian bookstore owners | Owners of a Christian book store in downtown Greenville say they are offended by a painting of a nearly nude women visible through the window of a restaurant across the street (The Greenville [S.C.] News)

Sex abuse scandals:

• Priests organize, focusing on rights within church | Gathering appears to come close to an implicit challenge to the bishops' authority (The New York Times)
  
  
• Catholic bishop defends abuse policy | Wilton Gregory says that most dioceses are complying with the new plan and that criticism it's unfair to priests is unfounded (Associated Press)
  
  
• Rare candor on rogue priests | ''Telling the truth cannot be wrong.'' With those simple words, Cardinal William Keeler last week released a torrent of information on decades of child abuse by Roman Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Baltimore (USA Today)
  
  
• Stigmatine priest sued in abuse case | Plainiff says clergyman failed to protect him from another cleric who allegedly sexually abused him (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Vatican quietly debates pedophilia | Response to U.S. Bishops' advice could impact church for years (NBC News)

Catholicism:

• Mother Teresa of Calcutta moves toward sainthood | Vatican approves miracle involving a 30-year-old Indian woman who was inexplicably healed from a stomach tumor after praying to the nun (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Vatican approves Mother Teresa 'miracle' (BBC, also audio)
  
  
• Married archbishop says he's still not ready to see woman he wed (Associated Press)
  
  
• Opus Dei founder still stirs religious fervor on the eve of canonization | The event will be a pinnacle for a secular movement that was at first regarded warily by ecclesiastical authorities (Associated Press)
  
  
• Power and mystery | As Opus Dei's founder is canonized, Catholics wonder if the secretive lay group will one day help pick the next Pope (Time Europe)
  
  
• Polish Cardinal tackles radical radio | Radio Maryja is one of the success stories of post-communist Poland (BBC)

Canadian nun trial:

• God told her to beat children, ex-nun tells court | Woman, 78, faces charges of assault at P. E. I. Commune (Canadian Press)
  
  
• She said a prayer, then hit the children | Former nun on trial in PEI says God told her how many strokes to administer (The Globe & Mail, Toronto)

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