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• 'Pope' of Illinois politics faces corruption trial (AP)
• Articles of Faith: Is the Death Penalty in Keeping with Catholic Doctrine (and Should Justice Scalia Resign)? (Time.com)
• God and Profits: How the Catholic Church Is Making A Comeback in Cuba (Time.com)
• Conn. court: breakaway parish can't keep property (AP)
• Relief, anger at mosque where al-Awlaki preached (AP)
• Bachmann delivers evangelical message at Liberty U (AP)

'Pope' of Illinois politics faces corruption trial (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2011 02:35 PM PDT AP - The former high school teacher-turned-mega millionaire cozied up to successive Illinois governors from both parties, while staying in the shadows and rarely speaking publicly. But so powerful was he behind the scenes that he was referred to in awe as The King of Clout and the pope of Illinois politics.

Articles of Faith: Is the Death Penalty in Keeping with Catholic Doctrine (and Should Justice Scalia Resign)? (Time.com) Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:05 PM PDT Time.com - As increasing numbers of death row inmates are exonerated and questions swirl about the possibility that states have executed innocent individuals, abolition of the death penalty has become as critical as opposition to abortion for some Catholics

God and Profits: How the Catholic Church Is Making A Comeback in Cuba (Time.com) Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:05 PM PDT Time.com - God and Profits: How the Catholic Church Is Making A Comeback in Cuba

Conn. court: breakaway parish can't keep property (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2011 12:18 PM PDT AP - A 135-year-old parish that broke away from the Episcopal Church after it consecrated its first openly gay bishop cannot keep its building and land, the Connecticut Supreme Court ruled Friday.

Relief, anger at mosque where al-Awlaki preached (AP) Posted: 30 Sep 2011 01:59 PM PDT AP - At the Washington-area mosque where Anwar al-Awlaki preached a decade ago, there were few tears over the death of the influential al-Qaida figure who more than anyone gave the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center its unwanted association with international terrorism. But some found the way he was killed to be un-American.

Bachmann delivers evangelical message at Liberty U (AP) Posted: 28 Sep 2011 08:38 AM PDT AP - Michele Bachmann has exhorted Christian students at Liberty University in Virginia to "not settle" for easy personal and political choices in life.

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