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• Iowa man drowns at Cornerstone Festival | Corey Finton, 23, was being taught to swim by a group of friends he had met at the festival (The Daily Ledger, Canton, Ia.)
  
  

Clergy and crime investigations:

• Preacher on fraud charge | The Rev Raymond Heap, allegedly preyed on pensioners by pretending he was investing their money and they were helping the church (Liverpool Echo, England)
  
  
• Parish seeks restitution from its former pastor | A small, historic Denver parish has accused its former pastor of filching more than $70,000 in church funds, including the bingo money (Rocky Mountain News)
  
  
• Pastor in Gaines inquiry resigns | The pastor of a church in which University of Pittsburgh football player Billy Gaines fell to his death while intoxicated resigned last week, according to church officials (The Washington Post)
  
  

Clergy sex abuse:

• Pastor resigns after child abuse allegations | Pastor Andy Goffinet resigned his position as senior pastor at the First Evangelical Free Church Sunday after claims of child sexual abuse (WQAD, Rock Island, Ill.)
  
  
• Navy punishes chaplains for sexual abuse | The Navy has punished more than 40 chaplains over the last decade for offenses ranging from sexual abuse to fraud — a misconduct rate much higher than for other officers, according to documents that detail the Navy's alarm at the problem (Associated Press)
  
  
• Beliefs: The untold fallout of the clergy abuse scandal | Patrick J. Schiltz argues that current litigation over sexual abuse by the clergy, besides posing economic peril for religious institutions, is rife with implications for religious freedom (Peter Steinfels, The New York Times)
  
  
• Boston church leader hires lawyer known for settlements | The move buoyed plaintiffs' lawyers (The New York Times)
  
  
• The itinerant friar in the cathedral | The contrast could not be greater between Bishop O'Malley and his discredited predecessor, Cardinal Bernard Law, who tolerated the sexual abuse of dozens of children by rogue priests (Editorial, The New York Times)
  
  
• Dismissal of abuse charges angers accuser | Prosecutors dismissed charges against former priest George Neville Rucker after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a state law that erased the statute of limitations in many decades-old molestation cases (Associated Press)
  
  

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