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• Christian Bale, Casey Affleck to play brothers on film
• Accuser in Philadelphia Church scandal is questioned in court
• Judge refuses to drop charges against U.S. Catholic bishop
• Pope denounces dissident priests who question church teaching on celibacy, ordaining women
• Pope denounces dissident priests on celibacy
• Problems cited on access to Cyprus religious sites
• Dissident priest: Pope just asking for reflection
• Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience
• Pope rips into dissident priests on celibacy

Christian Bale, Casey Affleck to play brothers on film Posted: LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Christian Bale and Casey Affleck are officially on board to star as brothers in the Rust Belt drama film "Out of the Furnace," Relativity Media said Thursday. They will be joined by Zoe Saldana ("Avatar"), who will play Bale's love interest, and Sam Shepard, who will play the two leads' uncle. In the film, Affleck is lured into a dangerous crime ring after his brother (Bale) is sent to prison. The film is set in an economically depressed section of the northeastern United States and will be directed by Scott Cooper ("Crazy Heart"). Cooper also wrote the screenplay. ...

Accuser in Philadelphia Church scandal is questioned in court Posted: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - A former U.S. Marine testifying in a sex abuse case rocking the Philadelphia Roman Catholic Archdiocese stood by his testimony under cross-examination on Thursday that he had been molested by a priest in the case. The witness, now 30, said Rev. James Brennan molested him at the priest's apartment in West Chester, Pennsylvania in 1996 when he was 14. In Thursday's testimony, he called Brennan "a sick man." Brennan, 50, is charged with attempted rape. Also on trial is Monsignor William Lynn, former secretary of the clergy, charged with child endangerment and conspiracy. ...

Judge refuses to drop charges against U.S. Catholic bishop Posted: (Reuters) - A Catholic bishop in Kansas City must stand trial on charges that he failed to report a priest found with pornographic pictures of young girls on his Church computer to police, a judge said on Thursday. Bishop Robert Finn, head of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, faces one misdemeanor charge that he failed to tell authorities that Church officials had found disturbing pictures of unclothed little girls that appeared to have been taken by a popular local priest, Father Patrick Ratigan. His trial is set to start September 24. ...

Pope denounces dissident priests who question church teaching on celibacy, ordaining women Posted: VATICAN CITY - Pope Benedict XVI has denounced priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying Thursday they were disobeying his authority to try to impose their own ideas on the church.

Pope denounces dissident priests on celibacy Posted: Pope Benedict XVI has denounced priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying Thursday they were disobeying his authority to try to impose their own ideas on the church.

Problems cited on access to Cyprus religious sites Posted: More needs to be done to allow worshippers free and unfettered access to religious sites on the ethnically divided island of Cyprus, a U.N. expert said Thursday.

Dissident priest: Pope just asking for reflection Posted: The Austrian priest who founded a group of clergy who question church teaching on celibacy and women's ordination has downplayed Pope Benedict XVI's denunciation.

Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience Posted: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Thursday re-stated the Roman Catholic Church's ban on women priests and warned that he would not tolerate disobedience by clerics on fundamental teachings. Benedict, who for decades before his 2005 election was the Vatican's chief doctrinal enforcer, delivered an unusually direct denunciation of disobedient priests in a sermon at a morning Mass on Holy Thursday, the day the Church commemorates the day Christ instituted the priesthood. ...

Pope rips into dissident priests on celibacy Posted: Pope Benedict XVI issued a blistering denunciation Thursday of priests who have questioned church teaching on celibacy and ordaining women, saying they were being selfish in disobeying his authority.

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