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• School's founder praises ruling on child abuse registry | The head of Heartland Christian Academy says he is "ecstatic and grateful" for a court ruling that cleared workers at his school of child abuse allegations (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
• Vatican defrocks priest, orders trial for another | The Vatican has issued two extraordinary decrees in Detroit-area priest abuse cases, ordering a rare church trial for an ousted priest from Marine City and defrocking another priest against his will (Detroit Free Press)
• Also: Vatican okays Michigan priest's removal | Joseph Sito has been on leave since 1993 because of "substantive allegations," the Archdiocese of Detroit said Sunday (Associated Press)

Christian media:

• Is this the headquarters of a growing media empire? | How a loophole in federal regulations turned this Wadsworth residence into the headquarters of 12 TV stations, and counting (Akron Beacon Journal, Oh.)
• KTIS Radio buys two Iowa stations | KTIS Radio, the top Christian radio network in the Twin Cities area, has purchased two stations in Des Moines to increase its holdings to 15 Christian stations nationwide (Associated Press)

More articles:

• A Christian's lament | Anyone deluded into thinking the Palestinian Authority would be a respectful and considerate custodian of areas sacred to Jewish people and Christians should think again (Elwood McQuaid, The Jerusalem Post)
• Purists rise against girls cross diving among boys | Column on Orthodox dive for the cross sparked much comment (Mary Jo Melone, St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)
• Younger Americans prefer donating time | In the random telephone survey of 1,000 Americans, more than 50 percent identified volunteering as more important than giving money, while 22 percent chose money as more important (Associated Press)
• When the roll is called down yonder | In Celebrities in Hell, Warren Allen Smith offers a handy and, well, irreverent compendium of famous freethinkers, which includes "agnostics, atheists, naturalists, pragmatists, secular humanists or nontheists of some stripe" (Los Angeles Times)

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