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Catholicism:

• Pope's man fights to turn back Brazil's evangelical tide | Yet behind the mild manners, tall, athletic preacher Marcelo Rossi is arguably one of Brazil's most influential men (Financial Times, London)
  
  
• Priests want married clergy discussed | Some in L.A. area want Mahony to raise the idea nationally and with the pope. A spokesman says he does not plan to do so (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• New Cardinal 'welcomes' debate on celibacy | The Archbishop of Edinburgh's views on the vows taken by priests put him at odds with traditionalists in the Catholic Church (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Embracing tradition | Denver Catholic group seeks holiness through poverty, prayer (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Denver home to several Catholic movements | Several "new movements" in Catholicism, most of them conservative in orientation, have migrated to the Denver area in recent years (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Sharing the law of the church | The Canon Law Society of America is holding its 2003 convention (The Oregonian)
  
  

Education:

• Football prayer controversy | ACLU chastised the Idalou school district for broadcasting a prayer over the PA system at a football game (KCBD, Lubbock, Tx.)
  
  
• Bible wars in public schools: No truce in sight | Suggestions to alleviate the plague of lawsuits over Bible courses and clubs (Charles Haynes, First Amendment Center)
  
  
• Increasing vouchers to religious schools stirs debate | Two-thirds of all private schools are religious, but about three-quarters of all schools taking vouchers are religious (Palm Beach Post, Fla.)
  
  
• When does a student's evangelism turn into harassment? | The larger issue, it seems, is this: How should believers - Christian or otherwise - express their faith in a nation that is increasingly diverse? (Kevin Leininger, The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind.)
  
  
• Plan for school confession | Teenagers on Cyprus may soon be able to repent their sins between lessons, after education officials yesterday said they were "seriously considering" a proposal to place confessionals in schools (The Guardian, London)
  
  

Academic studies:

• Power of prayer found wanting in hospital trial | Earlier, less extensive, research suggested prayer could have a measurably beneficial effect (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• Also: 'No health benefit' from prayer | The world's largest study into the effects of prayer on patients undergoing heart surgery has found it appears to make no difference (BBC)
  
  
• Also: They haven't got a prayer | There is something richly comic about the spectacle of a group of scientists attempting to measure the power of prayer and, by implication, to monitor the workings of the mind of God (Editorial, The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  
• University of Rochester helps in gauging religious attitudes | Among findings :most American Catholics and mainline Protestants don't believe one of the key tenets of many religious faiths — that their religion is the one true path to God (Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester, N.Y.)
  
  
• Going straight | New research published last week claims that homosexuals and lesbians who undergo psychiatric therapy can change their sexuality (The Daily Telegraph, London)
  
  

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