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• Also: Children told 'try oral sex' (The Evening Standard, London)

• Cal Poly campus's faculty faces battle over proposed anti-pornography resolution | Academics and students would need permission from the university president to look at pornography online (The Chronicle of Higher Education)

Clergy sex abuse:

• Baptist minister accused of sex abuse | Michael M. Taylor is already a registered sex offender (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Long Island monsignor scorns jury, insisting he is no 'monster' | A grand jury report suggests that Msgr. Alan J. Placa protected pedophiles. But had the grand jury spoken to him, Mr. Placa says, he would have denied everything (The New York Times)
  
  
• Judge rules church suits can proceed | Archdiocese's 1st Amendment motion rejected (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Dismissed priest fails to report in Philippines | When the Rev. Roberto Batoon was kicked out of the Diocese of Honolulu last month for admitting to sexual misconduct with a minor, he was instructed by Bishop Francis X. DiLorenzo to return to his diocese in the Philippines to face possible further action (The Honolulu Advertiser)
  
  
• A pause in some suits involving priests | A number of lawyers in Boston agree to a break in litigation to foster sex abuse settlements (Los Angeles Times)

Other stories of interest:

• Being single isn't an easy road for a Christian | Nowhere in the Bible does it say living a life for Jesus would be easy. So why would you think that living as a single person would be any easier? (Robertoa C. Reed, Philadelphia Daily News)
  
  
• Mother Teresa to be beatified by Pope John Paul II in October (Bloomberg News)

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