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• Laity head more Catholic colleges | Campuses shift from traditions (The Boston Globe)
  
  

• Tough questions even the strongest faith can't always answer | Religious schools tread a delicate line between the curriculum as decreed by the Board of Studies and their own beliefs (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• God in the classroom | Religious schools are soaking up students—and funding—as parents push for values-added private education (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Giving children what parents can't—values | The stampede of non-believers into the religious-based education sector has turned schools into the new churches (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  

• Teachers live in faith for pupils who don't | Christian Schools Australia students don't have to be Christians, but teachers and staff do (The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Vouchers no threat to schools, says state rep | D.C. Parental Choice Incentive Act of 2003 would provide taxpayer-funded private school tuition grants of up to $7,500 a year to D.C. families earning up to 180 percent of the poverty level, or about $27,500 for a family of three (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Patterson top pick to lead seminary | Conservative Southern Baptist leader Paige Patterson is the first choice of a search committee to become the president of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, the chairman of the board of trustees confirmed Thursday (Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Tex.)
  
  
• Also: Seminary in Wake Forest could lose its president | Paige Patterson has been president of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest for more than a decade, but the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports he's now the leading candidate for a similar post in Texas (News14, N.C.)
  
  
• Principal buffeted by religion, sports issue | The boy was strong, smart, and fast as greased lighting. A football coach's dream come true. But Matt Stanfill, a Seventh-day Adventist high school student who joined the local public high school team in 1978, never played in a varsity game (The Oregonian)
  
  

Life ethics:

• Polish authorities fine abortion ship | The boat arrived on Sunday without receiving permission to dock (BBC)
  
  
• Poland seals abortion pills aboard ship | Polish customs officials sealed a cargo of abortion pills aboard a Dutch ship to keep activists from illegally distributing them in this predominantly Roman Catholic country (Associated Press)
  
  
• Earlier: Poland acts against abortion ship (BBC, video)
  
  
• Abortion issue sharpens for '04 | Liberals can still prove their bravery in the battle for abortion rights - to their benefit or peril (Joan Vennochi, The Boston Globe)
  
  
• An abortion by any other name, perhaps |Not enough is known about how the morning-after pill works for it to be made so easily available (Miranda Devine, The Sydney Morning Herald)
  
  
• Abortion foes poised for court vacancy | Project Rosebud aims to tip the ideological balance on the high court toward ending the right to abortion, guaranteed by the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade (The Washington Times)
  
  
• Court okays booting of protesters by school | The ruling upholds a 2000 decision that Rocklin High could refuse entry to anti-abortion activists (The Sacramento Bee, Calif.)
  
  

Sexual ethics:

• Archbishops urge gay bishop to stand down | But Archbishop of Cape Town lends support (The Times, London)
  
  
• Also: Church faces schism over gay bishop | The archbishop's statement settles nothing (Sam Jones, The Guardian, London)
  
  

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