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• Vatican seeks to lure disaffected Anglicans (AP)
• Alito troubled by concerns over court's Catholics (AP)
• Suspects in church fire face new charges (AP)
• SC Republican chairmen apologize for Jewish remark (AP)
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Vatican seeks to lure disaffected Anglicans (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 04:44 PM PDT AP - The Vatican announced Tuesday it was making it easier for Anglicans to convert to Roman Catholicism — a surprise move designed to entice traditionalists opposed to women priests, openly gay clergy and the blessing of same-sex unions.

Alito troubled by concerns over court's Catholics (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:57 PM PDT AP - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito voiced frustration Tuesday over what he called persistent questions about the court's Roman Catholic majority.

Suspects in church fire face new charges (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 02:41 PM PDT AP - Two of the men charged with setting a Springfield church fire after President Barack Obama's election have pleaded not guilty to state charges in a 2003 house fire.

SC Republican chairmen apologize for Jewish remark (AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 12:32 PM PDT AP - Two Republican county officials in South Carolina have apologized after they disparaged Jews in a newspaper op-ed in support of a fiscally conservative U.S. senator.

(AP) Posted: 20 Oct 2009 03:01 AM PDT AP - Swiss Criminal Court orders director Roman Polanski to be kept in jail, citing flight risk.

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