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• Mount Carmel pastor accused | Diocese places Msgr. Daniel Murray, who denies sexual abuse charges, on leave (Daily Pilot, Newport Beach, Calif.)
  
  
• Tuscon diocese sells downtown headquarters | Sale follows deal to settle lawsuits over sexual abuse (The Arizona Daily Star)
  
  

John Geoghan's murder:

• Out for him: Inmate: Guard bullied Geoghan | A correction officer at MCI-Concord waged a "campaign" to move former priest John J. Geoghan to supermax security Souza-Baranowski Correctional Facility because of its "violent prison environment," an inmate said (The Boston Herald)
  
  
• Geoghan bore guards' abuse, inmate wrote | In a letter written to a lawyer seven months before defrocked priest John J. Geoghan was strangled in a cell, an inmate said that he had seen guards abuse Geoghan in Concord state prison and that he had written to top state corrections officials about the abuse of Geoghan and other inmates (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Inside prison, outside the law | John Geoghan's murder raises troubling issues of inmate 'justice' - and society's indifference (The Christian Science Monitor)
  
  
• Letter apologizes for pedophile priest's murder | letter of apology, purportedly from Joseph Druce, who is accused of killing defrocked pedophile priest John Geoghan in prison last month, has been sent to a Massachusetts newspaper (Reuters)
  
  

Catholicism:

• A golden papal handshake? | What to do in the emergency case of a pope so incapacitated he could not carry out his duties? And how to make such an emergency much more unlikely? (Peter Steinfels, The New York Times)
  
  
• Ripple from priests' celibacy letter continues, most recently in Illinois | Aftershocks in the nation and abroad, but not yet upheavals (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel)
  
  
• Faithful flock to see relic | Almost 2,000 line up for view of piece of cloak worn by saint (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• A frail Pope meets Slovak twins in an antiabortion gesture | Girls were introduced today as symbols to show that healthy, joyful people might develop from fetuses with defects. (The New York Times)
  
  
• An exhausted Pope finishes visit to Slovakia (The New York Times)
  
  
• Ailing Pope ends trip amid concern it may be his last | John Paul II is unable to complete a speech or sermon on his four-day visit to Slovakia (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• The globe-trotter Pope | The Church of Rome is the world's oldest surviving international organisation, the Vatican the world's smallest sovereign state (BBC)
  
  
• James Patrick Shannon dies at 82 | Former bishop took liberal stances that angered Vatican (Los Angeles Times)
  
  

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