| For Romney, speech at Christian college offers test Posted:  (Reuters) - There are not many Mitt Romney fan clubs at Liberty University. The Lynchburg, Virginia, school, founded by the late television evangelist Jerry Falwell, is a bastion for conservative Christian thought. Its theology students are taught that Mormonism - Romney's religion - is a cult. So for Romney, giving the commencement speech at Liberty on Saturday is a chance to make a heart-to-heart appeal to evangelical Christians who are skeptical of his Mormon faith and conservative credentials. ...
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| Pope enjoys concert conducted by Muti at Vatican Posted:  Maestro Riccardo Muti conducted a concert of selections of sacred music by Vivaldi and Verdi at the Vatican for an appreciative Pope Benedict XVI Friday in a celebration of the seventh anniversary of the pontiff's election to the papacy.
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| AP Exclusive: Vatican eyes Legion priests on abuse Posted: The Vatican is investigating seven priests from the troubled Legion of Christ religious order for alleged sexual abuse of minors — evidence that the scandal over the order's pedophile founder doesn't rest solely with him, The Associated Press has learned. |
| Stradivarius violin played for pope in Vatican concert Posted:  Pope Benedict XVI was serenaded on Friday with a religious-themed classical concert conducted by Italian maestro Riccardo Muti featuring rare instruments, including a Stadivarius violin from 1720.
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| Czech restitution plan may unlock vast church lands Posted:  CERVENA RECICE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Wires hang out of the walls, windows are smashed and the grass grows tall in the gardens of the once-elegant archbishop's residence in Cervena Recice, a 16th-century chateau left to rot after the communists took over in 1948. Bent on building a society free of religion, the communists seized the chateau, of the diocese of Prague, and thousands of other church properties and threw clergymen into labor camps and prisons or forced them into exile. ...
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| Vatican investigates seven cases of priest abuse Posted:  The ultra-conservative Legion of Christ movement on Friday said it had reported seven suspected cases of child abuse by its priests to the Vatican for investigation under new anti-abuse rules.
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| Czech restitution plan may unlock vast church lands Posted:  CERVENA RECICE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Wires hang out of the walls, windows are smashed and the grass grows tall in the gardens of the once-elegant archbishop's residence in Cervena Recice, a 16th-century chateau left to rot after the communists took over in 1948. Bent on building a society free of religion, the communists seized the chateau, of the diocese of Prague, and thousands of other church properties and threw clergymen into labor camps and prisons or forced them into exile. ...
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| Legion of Christ order says Vatican investigating 7 of its priests for alleged sexual abuse Posted: Legion of Christ order says Vatican investigating 7 of its priests for alleged sexual abuse. |
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