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• Eulogy for 60 churches: Priest shortage compels closures | Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley unveiled a sweeping reorganization of the Archdiocese of Boston yesterday and attributed the dramatic move to a persistent priest shortage - a problem likely to lead to future closings unless a solution is found (Boston Herald)
  
  
• Church closings painful, necessary | O'Malley has set the archdiocese on a course of healing, financially and spiritually. Accepting these church closings is one of the higher mountains he will ask Boston-area Catholics to climb (Editorial, Boston Herald)
  
  
• Parishioners fight to save their church | The Pottstown parish is to be closed (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
  
  

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• Conservative group amplifies voice of Protestant orthodoxy | The Institute on Religion and Democracy, a small organization based in Washington, has helped incubate traditionalist insurrections against the liberal politics of the denomination's leaders (The New York Times)
  
  
• A muted response to AIDS | The growing epidemic is the nation's No. 1 killer, but many of the sick are shunned and left to rely on prayer and untested remedies (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• The big lab experiment | Was our universe created by design? (Jim Holt, Slate)
  
  
• Concern over 'lack of Christians' at Kirk's Israeli hotel and retreat | The Church of Scotland's troubled hotel and retreat in Israel was plunged into fresh controversy last night, after one of the Kirk's senior ministers in Jerusalem accused officials running the project of not employing Christians in senior positions (The Scotsman)
  
  
• Heirs press creator's claim to Rio's Christ | Locals grouse as the French family of the iconic statue's sculptor seeks royalties (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Judge orders auction to end Bible dispute | Ruling in the case of a brother and sister who have been locked in a four-year fight over who owns their mother's 125-year-old family Bible, a Lake County probate judge hit upon a way for each to come away with their share (Associated Press)
  
  
• Mich. priest arrested in online sex sting | A Roman Catholic priest was arrested in an Internet sex sting after allegedly arranging to meet someone he thought was a 14-year-old girl (Associated Press)
  
  
• Sudanese factions close to peace deal | Details of cease-fire still to be negotiated (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Heavens above, the planets may affect us | Scientists have always dismissed astrology as a load of old bunk. Now, a British astronomer has said that there might be something in it after all. Could the planets really control our fates? (The Age, Melbourne, Australia)
  
  
• What are the Jewish and Christian views of Pentecost? | Faiths share holiday, but for different reasons (The Kansas City Star)
  
  

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