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• Italy, Jordan push religious tolerance initiative
• Bacon Pope painting unseen for decades up for U.S. auction
• Vatican paper weighs on 'Jesus' Wife' scrap: fake
• Christian right election-year rally set for Philly
• Trial of pope's ex-butler to shine big light on tiny Vatican
• Vatican newspaper weighs in on 'Jesus' Wife'
• Pope's ex-butler goes on trial for leaked papers

Italy, Jordan push religious tolerance initiative Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:42 PM PDT The foreign ministers of Italy and Jordan are pushing an initiative to promote religious tolerance worldwide.

Bacon Pope painting unseen for decades up for U.S. auction Posted: 27 Sep 2012 02:01 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A painting from Francis Bacon's iconic screaming Pope series, which has not been seen in public since 1975, is hitting the auction block where it is expected to sell for as much as $25 million, Sotheby's said on Thursday. "Untitled (Pope)," which Bacon painted circa 1954, will be sold at the November 13 New York sale of impressionist and modern art, the auction house said in a statement. "This is a great collecting opportunity," Oliver Barker, Sotheby's senior specialist for contemporary art, told Reuters in a telephone interview. ...

Vatican paper weighs on 'Jesus' Wife' scrap: fake Posted: 27 Sep 2012 01:18 PM PDT The Vatican newspaper has added to the doubts surrounding Harvard University's claim that a 4th century Coptic papyrus fragment showed that some early Christians believed that Jesus was married, declaring it a "fake."

Christian right election-year rally set for Philly Posted: 27 Sep 2012 12:27 PM PDT Christian conservatives who blame "moral depravity" for everything from the recession to terrorism are converging on Philadelphia for a rally they hope will spark a religious revival as Election Day nears.

Trial of pope's ex-butler to shine big light on tiny Vatican Posted: 27 Sep 2012 09:23 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has certainly seen more sensational trials in its long history. The Inquisition ordered Galileo to recant his theory that the earth revolves around the sun, and philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy. But even those cases, both in the 17th century, did not involve a breach of trust by a papal aide - the issue at the core of this Saturday's trial of papal butler Paolo Gabriele for stealing and leaking the pontiff's personal papers. ...

Vatican newspaper weighs in on 'Jesus' Wife' Posted: 27 Sep 2012 09:03 AM PDT The Vatican newspaper has added to the doubts surrounding Harvard University's claim that a 4th century Coptic papyrus fragment showed that some early Christians believed that Jesus was married.

Pope's ex-butler goes on trial for leaked papers Posted: 27 Sep 2012 06:15 AM PDT There was a time when a Vatican trial could end with a heretic being burned at the stake. Paolo Gabriele doesn't risk nearly as dire a fate, but he and the Holy See face a very public airing over the gravest security breach in the Vatican's recent history following the theft and leaking of the pope's personal papers.

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