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• Jury breaks without verdict in Philadelphia church abuse case
• Ouster of Vatican bank chief takes strange twist
• Ouster of Vatican bank chief takes strange twist
• Amid Economic Crisis, Spain Ponders Taxing Catholic Church Property
• Ex-Vatican banker prepared secret dossier: judicial source
• Post your pro-pope postcard to "sad" pontiff now
• Denmark approves gay weddings in church
• Ex-Vatican banker prepared secret dossier-judicial source
• Amid Economic Crisis, Spain Ponders Taxing Catholic Church Property
• Chinese police raid religious school; 12 kids hurt
• Israel moves to improve religious freedom – for Jews

Jury breaks without verdict in Philadelphia church abuse case Posted: 07 Jun 2012 03:08 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A Philadelphia jury ended its fifth day of deliberations on Thursday without reaching a verdict in the child sex abuse trial of a Roman Catholic monsignor, the highest-ranking U.S. clergyman to stand trial in the church's wide-ranging pedophilia scandal. Monsignor William Lynn, who supervised hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese for 12 years as secretary of the clergy, is accused of conspiracy and child endangerment. If convicted on all charges, he faces the possibility of 21 years in prison. The jury in Common Pleas Court before Judge M. ...

Ouster of Vatican bank chief takes strange twist Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:19 PM PDT Italian authorities seized a private document meant for Pope Benedict XVI when they raided the home of the Vatican's recently ousted bank chief, a lawyer said Thursday, adding a potentially problematic ...

Ouster of Vatican bank chief takes strange twist Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:18 PM PDT Italian authorities seized a private document meant for Pope Benedict XVI when they raided the home of the Vatican's recently ousted bank chief, a lawyer said Thursday, adding a potentially problematic legal twist in an already controversial case.

Amid Economic Crisis, Spain Ponders Taxing Catholic Church Property Posted: 07 Jun 2012 01:05 PM PDT Although they have rented it out to a restaurant for the past five years, the owners of one building in Aspe have never paid property tax. Nor have they ever paid tax on the apartments that house two of their employees. But that may be about to change. Last week, the city's government voted to partially rescind the exemption that the Catholic Church, landlord of those three properties and another eight more in town, has long enjoyed. And thanks to the crisis that threatens to upend Spain's economy, it's not the only place demanding change.

Ex-Vatican banker prepared secret dossier: judicial source Posted: 07 Jun 2012 12:59 PM PDT NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police searching the home and office of Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the former head of the Vatican's bank, have found a confidential dossier relating to his three-year tenure as the bank's president, a judicial source said on Thursday. The dossier appeared to have been put together by Gotti Tedeschi to defend himself from allegations over his mismanagement of the bank. ...

Post your pro-pope postcard to "sad" pontiff now Posted: 07 Jun 2012 09:04 AM PDT BERLIN (Reuters) - German Catholics upset about media attacks on Pope Benedict over the "Vatileaks" scandal can now show solidarity with the German-born pontiff by sending pre-printed postcards bearing the message "We are with you!" Benedict, 85, has criticized press coverage of the scandal that began in January with the leaking of confidential documents alleging corruption, mismanagement and cronyism in the awarding of contracts in the Vatican. ...

Denmark approves gay weddings in church Posted: 07 Jun 2012 05:54 AM PDT Denmark's Parliament has approved a law allowing same-sex couples to get married in formal church weddings instead of the short blessing ceremonies that the state's Lutheran Church currently offers.

Ex-Vatican banker prepared secret dossier-judicial source Posted: 07 Jun 2012 04:39 AM PDT NAPLES, Italy (Reuters) - Italian police searching the home and office of Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, the former head of the Vatican's bank, have found a confidential dossier relating to his three-year tenure as the bank's president, a judicial source said on Thursday. The dossier appeared to have been put together by Gotti Tedeschi to defend himself from allegations over his mismanagement of the bank. ...

Amid Economic Crisis, Spain Ponders Taxing Catholic Church Property Posted: 07 Jun 2012 02:22 AM PDT Although they have rented it out to a restaurant for the past five years, the owners of one building in Aspe have never paid property tax. Nor have they ever paid tax on the apartments that house two of their employees. But that may be about to change. Last week, the city's government voted to partially rescind the exemption that the Catholic Church, landlord of those three properties and another eight more in town, has long enjoyed. And thanks to the crisis that threatens to upend Spain's economy, it's not the only place demanding change.

Chinese police raid religious school; 12 kids hurt Posted: 06 Jun 2012 07:54 PM PDT State media reported that staff at a religious school in heavily Muslim far western China set off explosives to fend off a police raid and that 12 children were burned. An overseas rights group, however, blamed tear gas used by paramilitary forces for the injuries.

Israel moves to improve religious freedom – for Jews Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:17 AM PDT Israel has always touted a national respect for freedom of religion in a region where religious intolerance runs high. But ever since its founding, the Jewish state has nonetheless sanctioned discrimination – against Jews.

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