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June 17, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope to Irish: Child abuse by clergy 'a mystery'
Pope Benedict XVI told Irish Catholics on Sunday it is a mystery why priests and other church officials abused children entrusted in their care, undermining faith in the church "in an appalling way."
June 17, 2012 - The Telegraph
Telegraph: Will gay marriage end in divorce for church and state?
Two people meet and fall in love.
June 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Germany bans Islamic Salafist organization amid raids across the country
German authorities launched a nationwide crackdown Thursday on an ultraconservative Islamic organization, raiding homes, meeting halls and mosques, while banning one related group and opening in an investigation of two others.
June 14, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Vatican gives traditionalists proposal for reconciliation in a bid to end schism
The Vatican has formally proposed a way to reconcile with a breakaway group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics in a final bid to end a quarter-century of schism, offering it a special legal status in the church currently enjoyed only by the conservative Opus Dei movement.
June 13, 2012 - El Pais
El Pais: Blasphemy ain’t what it used to be
God is busy with bigger things, but the arrogance of men makes them feel obligated to defend him, Penal Code in hand.
June 12, 2012 - Irish Times
Irish Times: Opinion: Straight from the atheist's mouth - but Dawkins got it theologically wrong
JOHN WATERS wrote tellingly in The Irish Times last Friday that he would personally find it difficult to discuss transubstantiation with his best friend, “not because I have problems with the doctrine but because such matters are impossible to discuss in the language we use for politics, shopping and sex”.
June 12, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Church of England objects to gay marriage plan
The Church of England and Roman Catholic bishops of England and Wales formally objected Tuesday to the government's proposal to permit gay marriages, both asserting that their historic understanding is that marriage is the union of a woman and a man.
June 12, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Gay marriage plan could divorce Church from State
The Church of England faces its biggest rupture with the State in 500 years under government plans to legalise gay marriage.
June 09, 2012 - The Economist
Economist: Sweetened charity
“IT MUST be borne in mind,” Britain’s chancellor of the exchequer told the House of Commons in his budget speech, “that in every case exemption means a relief to A at the charge of B.”
June 07, 2012 - The Times
The Times: Muslim extremists at top-security jail are spreading fear among inmates and staff’
Muslim prisoners are bullying inmates to convert to Islam at a top-security jail, provoking fear of a campaign to radicalise prisoners.
June 07, 2012 - The Washington Post
Wash. Post: In Mali, an Islamist extremist haven takes shape
A vast new sanctuary is emerging for al-Qaeda’s African followers in the desert wastelands of northern Mali, where Tuareg secessionists, allied with extremist Muslim guerrillas, have shaken off government rule and declared an independent Islamist state.
June 06, 2012 - El Pais
El Pais: Eighty percent of Spaniards believe Church should pay property tax
The consensus has been broken. Leopoldo González-Echenique, an attorney general who was part of the previous Popular Party (PP) administration, has been put forward as the government’s choice to chair Radio Televisión Española (RTVE), the embattled public broadcaster.
June 05, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Reasserting and redefining Jewish culture in Poland
sitting at a Warsaw sidewalk café with her long dreadlocks wrapped in a colorful turquoise and orange scarf — said she first learned of her Jewish roots about a decade ago.
June 04, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Hostility between Muslims and German nationalists rattles a former capital
The people who live in the trim row houses with well-tended gardens that line the streets of this spa town along the Rhine like to boast of their city's tolerance, which dates to its time as the capital of West Germany and home to dozens of foreign embassies.
May 31, 2012 - The New York Times
NYT: Russian Church is a strong voice opposing intervention in Syria
As the West sought to pressure the Kremlin recently to help stop the killing in Syria, diplomats from Damascus were ushered into the heart of one of Russian Orthodoxy's main shrines.
May 28, 2012 - The Associated Press
AP: Pope's butler vows to help Vatican scandal probe
The biggest scandal to rock the Vatican in decades widened Monday with the pope's butler, arrested for allegedly having confidential documents in his home, agreeing to cooperate with investigators — raising the specter that higher-ranking ecclesial heads may soon roll.
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