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The Vatican and Israel:

• Vatican rejects Israeli complaint | The Vatican has rejected Israel's criticism that Pope Benedict XVI failed to condemn Palestinian militant attacks against Israel in his recent remarks (BBC)
• Taut times for Israel and Vatican | Harsh words have been exchanged between the Vatican and Israel as a diplomatic row bubbles between the Jewish state and the Catholic Church, threatening to unbalance a delicate relationship (BBC)
• Vatican responds | Accusations are groundless and untenable (Vatican.va)
• Vatican denounces some Israeli retaliation | Responding to Israeli criticism, the Vatican said Thursday it hasn't condemned every strike by Palestinian militants against the Jewish state because Israel's military response to the attacks has sometimes violated international law (Reuters)
• Kind of related: Indefensible | The Disciples of Christ apparently believe Israel shouldn't defend itself (Martin Peretz, The New Republic)

The Vatican & China:

• China, Vatican agree on new bishop, priest arrested | The Vatican is reported to have given its blessing to atheist China's choice of a new bishop, the second such appointment in as many months in a sign of a thaw in decades-old icy relations. But the Connecticut-based Cardinal Kung Foundation said Chinese authorities had beaten up parishioners in the southeastern province of Fujian who had been trying to prevent the arrest of an underground Roman Catholic priest, undermining reconciliation efforts (Reuters)
• U.S. group says China police detain priest | Police have detained a priest in China's unofficial Roman Catholic church and beat parishioners who tried to prevent him from being taken away, a U.S. monitoring group said Friday (Associated Press)
• An evangelist in central China | For decades, Chinese people were told what to believe. Despite restrictions, thought control is a thing of the past, and people are flocking to religions new and old in an effort to fill the spiritual vacuum left by weakened communist ideology (All Things Considered, NPR)
• Pope arrives at vacation palace near Rome | It was his 100th full day as pope (Associated Press)

Catholicism:

• Challenges of heeding call of God | So few men are becoming Roman Catholic priests that some parishes in the London area may have to close with others compelled to share priests, according to a church consultation document (BBC)
• Scituate levies tax on disputed church | Parishioner vigil blocking closure (The Boston Globe)
• Pope should spell out views on Potter | Five sentences aren't enough (Edmund Kern, The Evening News, Edinburgh, Scotland)
• From Anglican to married Catholic priest | I am pleased and humbled to announce that my bishop, the Most Rev. Gerald R. Barnes of the Diocese of San Bernardino, has received permission from Rome to ordain me to the Catholic priesthood (Gregory Elder, Redlands Daily Facts, Ca.)

Catholics and Protestants:

• Religion Today: Is the Reformation over? | Mark Noll, one of the top U.S. evangelical thinkers, has co-authored a book that finds an increasingly warm relationship between Catholics and evangelicals (Associated Press)
• Is the Reformation Over? | An excerpt (Books & Culture, July/August 2005)

John Roberts:

• Roberts and Rome | Does Catholic belief interfere with judicial reasoning? What kind of question is that? (Douglas W. Kmiec, The Wall Street Journal)
• John Roberts' Catholic connections | By all outward measures, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has faithfully followed the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church (George Neumayr, Beliefnet)

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