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Religious schools in Scotland:

• Dispute stalls mixed-faith schools talks | The project to build "superschools" in North Lanarkshire ran into trouble when the Church issued a deadline of Friday for written guarantees of separate entrances, staffrooms and toilets (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Church deadline in campus row | Agreement can be reached over a £150m plan for mixed faith school campuses in North Lanarkshire, the council has insisted (BBC, video)
  
  
• Tolerance and togetherness - Catholic style | The evidence of bigotry in all its forms and the misery it causes throughout the world is there for us all to see, and the best contribution the Catholic Church can make in Scotland is to demand separate entrances for a primary school (Fordyce Maxwell, The Scotsman)
  
  
• We're all for tolerance | The worrying news that the Catholic Church may pull out of a £150m flagship project for seven joint-faith school campuses in North Lanarkshire if its demands for separate entrances and separate staffrooms are not met has re-ignited the debate about the validity of segregated schools in a tolerant, diverse and forward-looking nation (Lorna Martin, The Herald, Glasgow)
  
  
• Catholic Church may pull out of school-share deal in Scotland | Senior Catholic Church officials have said they will to call a halt on the project to use seven primary school sites in Lanarkshire unless they get written assurances that there will be separate entrances, staff lavatories and nurseries for the different faiths (The Independent, London)
  
  

Abuse:

• Church to pay $3 million in rape | Diocese of Oakland sets a state record for the amount paid by a diocese to a single victim of clergy sexual abuse since the scandal broke two years ago in Boston (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Former Morristown pastor barred from performing priestly duties | Decision comes after diocese's probe of sex abuse case (Daily Record, Morristown, Pa.)
  
  
• Washington state bill would require church supervisors to report clergy sex abuse | Criticism of the bill came from church officials worried about government interference, and from advocates for the abused concerned that abusive priests and pastors could still slip through the cracks (Associated Press)
  
  
• Yale Divinity grad sues school, alleging abuse | A Yale Divinity School graduate claims that she was sexually abused by her mentor, a professor of theology and African American studies, and that the university failed to protect her from retaliation once she came forward to complain (The Hartford Courant, Conn.)
  
  

Catholicism:

• Pope John Paul II criticizes media | Pope John Paul II criticized the media on Saturday, saying they often give a positive depiction of extramarital sex, contraception, abortion and homosexuality that is harmful to society (Associated Press)
  
  
• Also: Pope says media damaging families | The Pope has called on governments across the world to ensure that family life is not weakened by the growth of communications media (BBC)
  
  
• Disabled pope would create a dilemma for the Vatican | There is no formal provision for governing the Catholic Church should a pope become incapacitated, nor is there likely to be one anytime soon (The Orlando Sentinel)
  
  
• A miracle by any other name | An ailing girl's amazing recovery may offer proof needed for Francis Seelos' canonization (The Times-Picayune, New Orleans)
  
  
• Break-dancers perform for the Pope | an unusual spectacle at the Vatican, Pope John Paul II presided over a performance of break-dancers who leaped, flipped and spun their bodies to beats from a tinny boom box (Associated Press)
  
  

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