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• Is there a place for 'scientific' studies of religion? | I'd like to be counted among those who see a place for a scientific approach toward the study of religion. However, in that context, I think we need to interpret the word "scientific" broadly (Robert Wuthnow, The Chronicle of Higher Education, subscription required)
  
  

Politics and law:

• How one clone leads to another | The failure of the last Congress to enact a ban on human cloning casts grave doubt on our ability to govern the unethical uses of biotechnology, even when it threatens things we hold dear (Leon R. Kass, The New York Times)
  
  
• Alaska rape law flouted, group says | Anti-abortionists say Planned Parenthood nurse was taped urging fake minor to lie (Anchorage Daily News)
  
  
• Pope wants EU to call itself Christian | But diplomatic sources say secular opposition is likely to block his efforts. (UPI)
  
  
• Catholic communion a no-no for Governor-General | With a few narrow exceptions, the church's practice is to refuse communion to non-Roman Catholics, yet the governor- general's spokesman, Stewart Wheeler, said she does take communion in Roman Catholic services (The Toronto Star)
  
  

Technology:

• Honey, it's the pope | How would you like a daily telephone call from the Pope, ensuring a spiritual start to your day? (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Highway to Heaven - how to make faith virtually international | The internet is seemingly fulfilling its promise to bring the world closer together but it has also brought the Churches under greater scrutiny (Greg Watts, The Times, London)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• Clarification | President of the Unitarian Universalist Association didn't for including the word God in the Principles (Ft. Worth Star-Telegram)
  
  
• Small Bible college in Kentucky shuns beastly 666 phone number | "No one wants to be part of the mark of the beast," says Kentucky Mountain Bible College (Associated Press)
  
  
• Britain is a pagan society, says Cardinal | In a rare and wide-ranging interview, Roman Catholic Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor says that he believes the church can survive its crisis (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Church choir video turns out to be porn | About 100 parishioners received the video as a free gift from the parish council in the Dutch village of Hengelo (Ananova)
  
  
• Religion News in Brief | Lesbian pastor, Billy to Oklahoma City, and other stories (Associated Press)

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