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• Also: Prince 'targeted' in new bishop's attack on adultery | The cleric who is to become Bishop of Durham has condemned the 'morals of the street' practised by adulterers (The Observer, London)
  
  
• Archbishop to be enthroned with poetic flourish | The Archbishop has added South African songs, Methodist readings, an Urdu melody and Welsh hymns to the oath and enthronements of Thursday's ancient religious service (The Times, London)
  
  
• It is rare to have a prophet as an archbishop | Nothing like Williams, with his intellectual powers, poetic language
  
  
• and natural authority, happened since William Temple. (Andreas Whittam Smith, The Independent, London)
  
  
• It is necessarily so | Mary Wakefield talks to the Revd William Taylor about sex, sin and the Archbishop of Canterbury (The Spectator, U.K.)
  
  
• Job fears prompt clergy to put their faith in trade union | In God they believe, but in Amicus they trust (The Scotsman)

Catholicism:

• Led by laity | Non-ordained Catholics filling void left by priest shortage (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Scandal's fallout: the new struggle of Catholic schools | School closings are now a fact of life in American Catholic education, especially in urban neighborhoods (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Firemen seeking sainthood for 9/11 priest | Few of the victims of the World Trade Center attacks caught the public imagination like Father Mychal Judge (The Times, London)
  
  
• Et tu, Tony? In a crisis, all roads still lead to Rome | At times of international uncertainty, the traffic rises (Peter Stothard, The Times, London)
  
  
• French Catholics: absolve 'gourmandise' | The association of gourmandise and ''gluttonerie'' has long rankled local epicureans (Religion News Service)

Other stories of interest:

• Religion news in brief (Associated Press)

• Robertson returns to work a week after cancer surgery | Dr. Arnon Krongrad, the urologist who performed the surgery, said in a telephone interview that Robertson was "unusually resilient" (The Virginian-Pilot)

• Is boredom bad? | Forget novelty. Trying to escape monotony makes it worse (Roy Rivenburg, Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Honor guardsman loses job in name of God | Firing Patrick Cubbage for offering a blessing during a flag presentation ceremony at the express consent of a survivor of a deceased veteran was wrong (Jeff Mullin, Enid [Okla.] News & Eagle)
  
  
• Yoga gaining popularity with Christians (The Billings Gazette)

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