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• Reaction mixed to Southern Baptists' gay stance | Several Amarillo Baptist leaders say an initiative aimed at befriending gays to liberate them is not a new approach, but one Amarillo lesbian says the move comes too late (Amarillo Globe-News, Tex.)

Roman Catholicism:

• Ecumenical Patriarch praises John Paul, urges Christian unity | Bartholomew commended, in particular, John Paul's efforts to establish contact with other Christians, Jews and Muslims (Associated Press)
  
  
• In apparent stigmata, a question of belief | Despite little publicity, professed stigmatic Lilian Bernas draws crowds at her church appearances (The Buffalo News)
  
  
• The shrinking sisterhood | In the community of nuns, it's becoming harder to find ones who are young (Chicago Tribune)
  
  
• Virgin Mary 'seen in US hospital' | More than 25,000 people visited the Milton Hospital near Boston, Massachusetts, at the weekend as word of the likeness began to spread (BBC)
  
  
• Cherie Blair attacks Rome over status of women | The Prime Minister's wife voiced her disappointment that, although the Pope talked about acknowledging women, she noticed little feminine influence in the Vatican when she visited Rome this year with her husband (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Sick kids, families drawn to Lourdes | Chicago-area children are among 4,000 from 22 nations embarking on a journey to Catholic shrine in France in search of healing (Chicago Tribune)

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