2009年1月6日星期二

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Yahoo! News: Religion News

Calif. court sides with Episcopals over property (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 08:39 PM CST

AP - The state's high court ruled Monday that three Southern California parishes that left the U.S. Episcopal Church over its ordination of gay ministers cannot retain ownership of their church buildings and property.

Episcopal church wins property dispute (Reuters)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 05:18 PM CST

Reuters - The U.S. Episcopal Church on Monday won a victory in its efforts to hold on to church property claimed by congregations that have left in disputes over theology and the role of homosexuals in the church.

Pope Benedict XVI names new archbishop for Detroit (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 01:38 PM CST

Bishop Allen H. Vigneron, 60, speaks during a news conference in Detroit, Monday, Jan. 5, 2009. Pope Benedict XVI named Bishop Vigneron, who has been serving in California, as the new archbishop of Detroit. Cardinal Adam Maida, had led the Detroit area's 1.4 million Roman Catholics for nearly two decades. The Vatican said Maida had resigned after reaching the 75-year-old age limit dictated by canon law.  (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)AP - Pope Benedict XVI has selected a Michigan native as the new archbishop of Detroit.


Pope names new Detroit archbishop (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 07:15 AM CST

AP - Pope Benedict XVI has named a new archbishop for Detroit, Michigan, and made appointments for top Church posts in Canada and California.

Cruise says church helped him overcome dyslexia (AP)

Posted: 05 Jan 2009 06:13 AM CST

In this file photo of Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008 Tom Cruise arrives for a taping of 'The Late Show with David Letterman,'  in New York. U.S. actor Tom Cruise has told a Spanish magazine that Church of Scientology teachings helped him overcome dyslexia. 'I came to asked myself if I was normal or an idiot. I would try to concentrate but my memory was short and I felt anxiety, frustration, boredom. When I graduated (from school) in 1980 I was functionally illiterate,' Cruise says in the interview posted on the magazine's Web site Sunday Jan. 4, 2009.  (AP Photo/Charles Sykes)AP - U.S. actor Tom Cruise said Scientology teachings helped him overcome childhood dyslexia, a Spanish magazine reported.


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