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• Also: Church leaders warn of gay split | Thirty-five church leaders urged openly gay Canon Jeffrey John to withdraw his acceptance of the position when they met in Oxford on Wednesday night (BBC)
  
  
• The Third World way | It cannot be pleasing to progressive Anglicans and Catholics (Francis X. Rocca, The American Prowler\)
  
  
• The one and the many | Organized Christianity began as a religion for women and slaves. It looks set fair to end, at least in the Western world, as a religion for homosexuals. The only thing that might turn the tide would be a determined missionary effort by the diocese of Nigeria (John Derbyshire, National Review Online)
  
  
• U.S. gays saying 'I do' in Canada | Respond to ruling allowing licenses (The Boston Globe)
  
  

Art:

• Advertisements for the Vatican, art included | Some 350 objects, the largest collection from these museums ever to tour North America, are currently on view in "St. Peter and the Vatican: The Legacy of the Popes," at the Houston Museum of Natural Science through July 27 (The New York Times)
  
  
• Vatican puts museum collection online | Site allows visitors to take a virtual reality tour of some of the dozen museums and galleries that make up the Vatican collection, zooming in on a frescoed panel in the Raphael Rooms or viewing Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel with a three-dimensional video (Associated Press)
  
  
• Cast aside at the cathedral | Termites and the administrators of Washington National Cathedral are about to destroy a priceless link to the past: the workshops of the cathedral's stone carvers (The Washington Post)
  
  

Harry Potter:

• Harry Potter, culture warrior | Conservative Christians should not fulminate over J.K. Rowling's creation, but embrace her books' core messages (Jerry Bowyer, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
  
  
• Deconstructing Rowling | J.K. Rowling is an Inkling, says John Granger's fine book, The Hidden Key to Harry Potter (Dave Kopel, National Review Online)
  
  

Films:

• Hollywood getting religion? | Hollywood's high rollers haven't suddenly become holy rollers. It's still all about the almighty dollar. (The Early Show, CBS)
  
  
• Gibson's Jesus pic faces more anti-Semitism charges | ADL releases yet another statement (Reuters/Hollywood Reporter\)
  
  
• God—The Hollywood years | Depicting the Lord on film may break the second commandment, but that didn't stop George Burns and Alanis Morissette (Scott Hughes, The Guardian, London)
  
  

Walking for God:

• Christian practices simplicity | Man walks from church to church across the West (The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.)
  
  
• Pastor says sacred Spanish trail transformed him | Charleston couple among 25,000 pilgrims to finish 350-mile trek across northern Spain (The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.)
  
  

Other stories of interest:

• James and the giant reach | Combine science, politics, religion, and the Israeli antiquities market. Hit blend. (Jeremy Lott, The American Prowler)
  
  
• Saintly beauty pageant is thanks to God | An Italian priest on Sunday prepared to celebrate his parish's patron saint by presiding over a beauty pageant to choose the town's candidate for the upcoming Miss Italy competition (Reuters)
  
  
• Former nun's prayers answered in casino | "I always knew the Lord was going to help me pay my bills," says Catherine Foy, who won $1.5 million from nine quarters (Reuters)
  
  
• A fogged window to faith | Pilgrims see vision of Mary at hospital (The Washington Post)
  
  
• YWCA choice for leader outrages critics | Traditional Values Coalition is trying to pressure the government to cut off the YWCA's funding and has begun a petition campaign to drive Patricia Ireland out (Fox News)
  
  

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