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• Too much religion at military academies? West Point cadet revives charge
• German church: most sex abuser priests are psychologically normal
• Vatican sets up a "home" for Canadian Anglican converts
• Mercedes delivers new popemobile to Vatican
• Pope shores up papal household after leaks scandal
• Pope gives top German assistant more power

Too much religion at military academies? West Point cadet revives charge Posted: 07 Dec 2012 02:34 PM PST When Blake Page announced this week that he was quitting West Point a few months before graduation, citing the overt religiosity on campus, he raised recurring questions about the pervasiveness and impact of evangelical Christianity within the ranks of the US military.

German church: most sex abuser priests are psychologically normal Posted: 07 Dec 2012 12:31 PM PST PARIS (Reuters)- A German Catholic Church study showed most priests found guilty of sexually abusing minors were psychologically normal, according to survey results presented on Friday. Only 12 percent of those surveyed were diagnosed as paedophiles, said the report released by Trier Bishop Stephan Ackermann, the church's spokesman on abuse cases. Psychological tests commissioned by priests' dioceses around Germany found only five percent could be classified as ephebophiles - attracted to teenagers, it said. ...

Vatican sets up a "home" for Canadian Anglican converts Posted: 07 Dec 2012 09:12 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican has approved a new church structure in Canada to administer to disaffected Anglicans there who convert to Roman Catholicism because they feel their own church has become too liberal. Called a deanery, it will be headed by Father Lee Kenyon, a married Anglican priest from Manchester, England who converted to Catholicism in 2011. The deanery will come under a structure known as the "ordinariate" for North America, roughly equivalent to a trans-national diocese, which is based in Houston, Texas and headed by Rev. Jeffrey N. ...

Mercedes delivers new popemobile to Vatican Posted: 07 Dec 2012 08:20 AM PST German automaker Daimler says it has delivered Pope Benedict XVI his new popemobile — a customized Mercedes-Benz M-Class SUV with special security features.The company says the new car was delivered Friday ...

Pope shores up papal household after leaks scandal Posted: 07 Dec 2012 06:46 AM PST Pope Benedict XVI moved Friday to shore up the papal household in the aftermath of the Vatican's leaks scandal, naming his trusted secretary to also run the office that organizes his schedule.

Pope gives top German assistant more power Posted: 07 Dec 2012 06:39 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Friday promoted his German priest-secretary to a job that significantly increases his influence and power in the Vatican. Monsignor Georg Ganswein, who has been the closest person to Benedict since his election in 2005, will be elevated to the rank of archbishop in the new job, whose official title is Prefect of the Pontifical Household. As prefect, Ganswein, 56, already one of the most recognizable and powerful figures in the papal court, will arrange all the pope's private and public audiences and his daily schedule. ...

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