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• Church jury returns Monday, seeks 'smoking gun'
• Pope to attend La Scala concert
• U.S. nuns push back against Vatican crackdown
• Church jury returns Monday, asks for 'smoking gun'
• Pope and top aide display unity amid scandal
• Pope to travel to Brazil in July 2013 for youth festival
• US nuns' group signals opposition to Vatican overhaul
• Pope holds World Families meet in Milan
• Vatican has long history of intrigue and controversy
• Catholic nuns group says Vatican-ordered overhaul based on 'unsubstantiated,' 'flawed' claims
• Pope to attend La Scala concert of Beethoven's Ninth on 1st day of events focused on families
• Fed up Ill. lawmaker shouts profanities, cites Bible, throws paper in videotaped outburst

Church jury returns Monday, seeks 'smoking gun' Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:38 PM PDT A Philadelphia jury wasted no time Friday in homing in on the alleged "smoking gun" as it started deliberations in a groundbreaking clergy-abuse case.

Pope to attend La Scala concert Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:33 PM PDT Pope Benedict XVI praised the performance of Beethoven's Ninth symphony on Friday evening at Milan's La Scala theater as "a moment of elevation of the soul."

U.S. nuns push back against Vatican crackdown Posted: 01 Jun 2012 02:07 PM PDT (Reuters) - The largest organization of U.S. Catholic nuns on Friday rejected a Vatican assessment that they had fallen under the sway of radical feminism and needed to hand control of their group over to a trio of bishops. The Leadership Conference of Women Religious, whose members represent about 80 percent of nuns in the United States, issued a sharp statement calling the Vatican's rebuke unsubstantiated and "the result of a flawed process that lacked transparency. ...

Church jury returns Monday, asks for 'smoking gun' Posted: 01 Jun 2012 01:47 PM PDT A Philadelphia jury is homing in on the alleged "smoking gun" in a groundbreaking clergy-abuse case.

Pope and top aide display unity amid scandal Posted: 01 Jun 2012 12:00 PM PDT MILAN (Reuters) - Pope Benedict and his deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, regarded as the chief target of a campaign of leaks, appeared side by side on Friday at the start of a visit to Milan that is unlikely to provide much respite from the scandal. In his speech, the pontiff made no reference to the scandal, which exploded last week when his butler was arrested for stealing his private documents. Many Vatican insiders believe the butler is merely a scapegoat in a poisonous power struggle between Bertone's allies and enemies. ...

Pope to travel to Brazil in July 2013 for youth festival Posted: 01 Jun 2012 11:46 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI will travel to Brazil next July for a youth festival where he will be welcomed at the country's famous Copacabana beach, a local church official said Friday.

US nuns' group signals opposition to Vatican overhaul Posted: 01 Jun 2012 11:39 AM PDT The group that represents Catholic sisters in the United States signaled Friday it would challenge a Vatican attempt to pull its doctrine closer toward conservative church policy.

Pope holds World Families meet in Milan Posted: 01 Jun 2012 11:11 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI praised the role of the traditional family as he was cheered by thousands of faithful in the city of Milan on Friday, leaving behind a scandal-hit Vatican.

Vatican has long history of intrigue and controversy Posted: 01 Jun 2012 08:11 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict is fighting the worst crisis of his papacy, but his problems are only the latest in a long history of controversies and intrigue in the headquarters of the Roman Catholic Church. The "Vatileaks" scandal, in which the pope's private papers are alleged to have been pilfered by his own butler, pales in comparison to the scandals of centuries past when popes were accused of violence, nepotism and sexual excesses. ...

Catholic nuns group says Vatican-ordered overhaul based on 'unsubstantiated,' 'flawed' claims Posted: 01 Jun 2012 05:36 AM PDT NEW YORK, N.Y. - The umbrella group for U.S. Roman Catholic nuns says the Vatican crackdown on their organization is based on unfounded claims and has hurt the church.

Pope to attend La Scala concert of Beethoven's Ninth on 1st day of events focused on families Posted: 01 Jun 2012 04:20 AM PDT MILAN - Pope Benedict XVI will attend a concert of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony conducted by Daniel Barenboim at La Scala on the first of three days of events focused on the family.

Fed up Ill. lawmaker shouts profanities, cites Bible, throws paper in videotaped outburst Posted: 01 Jun 2012 12:00 AM PDT SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Screaming, swearing and referencing the Bible, a red-faced Illinois Rep. Mike Bost punched at papers he threw in the air while lambasting the state's powerful House speaker. Then he swiped his microphone away and flopped back in his chair in a silent sulk.

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