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Obama plans a scaled back National Day of Prayer (AP) Posted: 06 May 2009 11:20 AM PDT AP - The White House is planning a muted observance of Thursday's National Day of Prayer, a response that has disappointed both Christian conservatives and an atheist group that wants to end the tradition.

Religion news in brief (AP) Posted: 06 May 2009 10:06 AM PDT AP - The Roman Catholic bishop of an eastern Pennsylvania diocese has criticized a local Catholic college's decision to have U.S. Sen. Bob Casey speak at its graduation ceremony later this month.

Vision for college unswayed by recession (AP) Posted: 06 May 2009 10:00 AM PDT AP - Near the magnificent new church on the Ave Maria University campus, sculptor Marton Varo chips away at 80 tons of the best white marble money can buy, direct from the same Italian quarry where Michelangelo used to get his.

Catholic cardinal: IRA dissidents shame Ireland (AP) Posted: 06 May 2009 07:47 AM PDT AP - IRA splinter groups still plotting gun and bomb attacks in Northern Ireland are shaming the people of Ireland and betraying the memory of its patriot dead, the leader of the island's 4 million Catholics declared Wednesday.

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