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• The problem apostle | How Garry Wills rehabilitates Paul. Richard Wightman Fox reviews What Paul Meant (Slate)
  
  

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Thanksgiving:

• No thanks to the Pilgrims | Holiday's purpose rings true even though tale doesn't, historian says (Religion News Service)
  
  
• A feast of the ordinary | Why we love Thanksgiving Week (James Carroll, The Boston Globe)
  
  

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Crime:

• Preacher's wife killed husband because of abuse, family says | Mary Winkler's family talks for the first time about why she shot her husband (Good Morning America, ABC)
  
  
• Sheriff's arrest Bible student for North Country church fire | Police say Lussier took an interest in the North Country church because of his differing views on religion (WTEN, Albany, N.Y.)
  
  
• Also: Word of Life student arrested in Pottersville church arson (The Post-Star, Glens Falls, N.Y.)
  
  
• S. Bruns. church seeks item | $300 reward offered for 1914 trowel (Home News Tribune, East Brunswick, N.J.)
  
  
• Third man arrested for murder of missionaries | The Mozambican authorities have announced the arrest of a third suspect in the murder of two Catholic missionaries at the Fonte Boa mission in the western province of Tete on 6 November (Agencia de Informacao de Mocambique)
  
  

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Abuse:

• Freeze on priest abuse cases lifted | The decision, after a 3-year delay, allows lawyers to begin pretrial investigations of more than 100 claims against 32 Catholic clerics (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Trials where the church is judge, jury | Priests and accusers are turning to canonical tribunals to sort out sex abuse allegations taken up by no other court (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Accuser tells clerical court that priest molested him | Daniel Donohue described how his friendship with Msgr. Charles M. Kavanagh grew abusive and manipulative (The New York Times)
  
  
• D.A.'s office disputes church assertion | Prosecutors say they didn't tell Catholic officials in L.A. months ago not to notify parents about a high school molestation probe (Los Angeles Times)
  
  
• Priest's death affects suits | Abuse lawyers didn't depose White (The Denver Post)
  
  
• Long Island priest is charged after internet child pornography investigation | More than 1,300 pornographic pictures and videos involving children were found on a computer that the priest kept in a rectory (The New York Times)
  
  
• Churchgoers shocked by allegations | Parishioners at churches in Babylon and Roosevelt where the Rev. Thomas G. Saloy most recently presided over said yesterday they were shocked and saddened of his arrest on federal child pornography charges, while some said they would pray for him (Newsday, N.Y.)
  
  
• Uxbridge priest admits misconduct, church says | A 58-year-old priest who has served as pastor of St. Mary's Parish in Uxbridge for six years was placed on administrative leave during the weekend after admitting "inappropriate sexual behavior" with a minor more than 30 years ago, before he took his vows, church officials said yesterday (The Boston Globe)
  
  

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Other stories of interest:

• Whose soul is saved, and who gets roasted? | Among believers, opinions differ widely (The Dallas Morning News)
  
  
• Tree crushes church in Nicaragua, kills 11 | A huge tree fell on a church in northern Nicaragua and killed 11 people, including a U.S. missionary, Honduran police said on Monday (Reuters)
  
  
• Date lab | They've got strong Christian values in common, but how far can faith really carry them? (The Washington Post)
  
  
• Joining together for the family meal | Dining as a family fuses Christian and African spirituality (The Boston Globe)
  
  
• Atheist, Christian find common ground online | No longer just 'spinning our wheels,' separation of church and state debated (MSNBC)
  
  
• Debates within Islam | If Islamic societies are going to reform, change has to come from within. Over the weekend, there were two hopeful signs (Editorial, USA Today)
  
  

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