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• Episcopal bishop urges restraint from Occupy NYC (AP)
• 'Voice of Vatican' Foley eulogized at Pa. church (AP)
• Egypt's Christians Back Parties That Oppose Islamists (Time.com)
• Pope emphasizes human dignity (AP)
• Atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 (Reuters)
• Obama to speak to Reform Jews (AP)

Episcopal bishop urges restraint from Occupy NYC (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 04:12 PM PST AP - The top bishop of the Episcopal Church is asking Occupy Wall Street protesters not to trespass on the property of a New York City church that has supported them.

'Voice of Vatican' Foley eulogized at Pa. church (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:53 PM PST AP - The Pennsylvania-born cardinal who was the country's voice of the Vatican's midnight Christmas Mass for 25 years has been laid to rest at a Philadelphia cathedral following a funeral Mass.

Egypt's Christians Back Parties That Oppose Islamists (Time.com) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 06:30 AM PST Time.com - Limiting the extent of the Islamist victory at the polls becomes the overriding priority for a community fearing intolerance and attacks on tourism

Pope emphasizes human dignity (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 05:22 AM PST AP - Pope Benedict XVI warned Friday that respect for human dignity "is seriously threatened" by concerns over profit, utility and material possessions.

Atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens dead at 62 (Reuters) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 03:34 AM PST Reuters - British-born journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who made the United States his home and backed the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, died on Thursday at the age of 62.

Obama to speak to Reform Jews (AP) Posted: 16 Dec 2011 01:19 AM PST AP - President Barack Obama will speak at the 71st General Assembly of the Union for Reform Judaism in Washington on Friday afternoon.

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