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• Church to take donations on charge cards | Card reader installed in Swedish village's church (Associated Press)

Clergy sex abuse:

• Priest turned himself in for abuse | He was then assigned to work with kids for 18 more years (Associated Press)
  
  
• A window on reform | The Catholic lay group Voice of the Faithful, now one year old, is refining its message of change amid sharp controversy over its role (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Bishop is press pawn | The Catholic church is retaliating over what it sees as a campaign of persecution by the media (The Guardian, London)
  
  
• Archdiocese says priest should pay | The Archdiocese of San Antonio wants a jury in a sexual abuse lawsuit to assess any damages against the offending priest, not the archdiocese (San Antonio Express-News)
  
  
• Lennon's rise: from shy schoolboy to the chancery | Richie Lennon's stutter was so bad that he rarely spoke in class, never raised his hand, always lived in fear of the humiliating silence and stares as he groped for words (The Boston Globe)

Books:

• Tough times, tenacious readers | Fewer and bigger books seem to be the order of the day for many religion publishers (Publishers Weekly)
  
  
• Spring/Summer religion books | What's coming up (Publishers Weekly)
  
  
• Sluggish market means smaller CBA Expo | "Proliferation of product availability" a continuing challenge for Christian retailers (Publishers Weekly)
  
  
• Author feels Americans ill-equipped to face suffering | Nancy Guthrie's small, unpretentious book has provoked intense reader responses (Associated Press)
  
  
• Calvin goes to college | J. David Hoeveler's dense, fascinating Creating the American Mind is subtitled "Intellect and Politics in the Colonial Colleges," but it is religion that plays the largest role (The Wall Street Journal)
  
  
• The road to rapture | I just finished reading Girl Meets God: On the Path to a Spiritual Life, by Lauren F. Winner, and there is something electrifying about it (The Jewish Week)
  
  
• A scientist searches for mysticism | A review of Rational Mysticism: Dispatches From the Border Between Science and Spirituality (Los Angeles Times)

Radio Free Europe on "Fundamentalism":

• Fundamentalism, when love and compassion clash with conviction (Radio Free Europe)
  
  
• The roots of Christian fundamentalism | Among Christians, the word "fundamentalist" originally referred to members of a Christian religious movement that developed in the United States (Radio Free Europe)
  
  
• From one perspective, all Muslims are fundamentalists | The term fundamentalism has been adopted—often unfairly—in parts of the Muslim world and in the West alike to describe Islamic extremism, radicalism, and terrorism.  (Radio Free Europe)

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