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• Illinois judge rules against Catholics on foster care (Reuters)
• Pope starts Spain visit with call for economic ethics (Reuters)
• SC pastor charged with raping 2 women near church (AP)
• Ill. judge rules against Catholics on foster care (AP)
• New probe into Dutch Catholic institute deaths (AP)
• Pope demands greater ethics in economic policy (AP)
• Pope Benedict's Spain arrival sparks violent protests (VIDEO) (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Spain frees Mexican in alleged gas attack plot (AP)

Illinois judge rules against Catholics on foster care (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:42 PM PDT Reuters - Illinois can sever ties to Catholic charities that provide foster and adoption services for the state if the groups discriminate against unmarried and gay couples when placing children, a judge ruled on Thursday.

Pope starts Spain visit with call for economic ethics (Reuters) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - Pope Benedict denounced economic structures that put profits ahead of people on Thursday at the start of a trip to recession-hit Spain where the costs of the pontiff's visit have sparked violent protests.

SC pastor charged with raping 2 women near church (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:36 PM PDT AP - A South Carolina pastor has been charged with raping two women in a trailer behind his church.

Ill. judge rules against Catholics on foster care (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - An Illinois judge ruled Thursday that the state can stop working with Catholic Charities on adoptions and foster care placements — something the state decided to do in July after the not-for-profit agency refused to recognize Illinois' new civil unions law.

New probe into Dutch Catholic institute deaths (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 01:18 PM PDT AP - A Dutch Catholic institute for disabled girls said Thursday it will review 40 deaths at the children's home in the early 1950s. The review comes days after prosecutors began a criminal investigation into 34 deaths at a former Catholic boys' institute in the same town and the same time period.

Pope demands greater ethics in economic policy (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 09:32 AM PDT AP - Pope Benedict XVI denounced the profit-at-all-cost mentality that he says is behind Europe's current economic crisis as he arrived in hard-hit Spain on Thursday, and said morals and ethics must play a greater role in formulating economic policy in the future.

Pope Benedict's Spain arrival sparks violent protests (VIDEO) (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 08:41 AM PDT The Christian Science Monitor - Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Spain Thursday for a week-long Catholic youth festival in Madrid amid violent protests over public funds being used for the religious event.

Spain frees Mexican in alleged gas attack plot (AP) Posted: 18 Aug 2011 05:35 AM PDT AP - A Spanish judge ordered the release Thursday of a young Mexican chemistry student arrested on suspicion of plotting a gas attack on protesters opposed to a visit here by Pope Benedict XVI, but the suspect remains under investigation.

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