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• No verdict yet in Philadelphia church sex abuse trial
• Woman says face-chewing attacker was religious
• Ex-Vatican bank head questioned on moneylaundering
• Dan Church to coach Canadian women's hockey team in 2014 Winter Olympics
• Scandal-hit Vatican says restoring trust will take time
• Kuwait ruler rejects death penalty for religious crimes

No verdict yet in Philadelphia church sex abuse trial Posted: 06 Jun 2012 02:48 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Philadelphia jury ended its fourth day of deliberations on Wednesday 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 for 12 years as secretary of the clergy supervised hundreds of priests in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, 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. ...

Woman says face-chewing attacker was religious Posted: 06 Jun 2012 02:14 PM PDT There was no indication the man who chewed off the face of a homeless man had a history of mental illness or was using drugs other than marijuana, the attacker's girlfriend said Wednesday.

Ex-Vatican bank head questioned on moneylaundering Posted: 06 Jun 2012 11:43 AM PDT MILAN (Reuters) - Italian prosecutors questioned the former head of the Vatican bank, Ettore Gotti Tedeschi, on Wednesday as part of an investigation into money laundering a day after searching his house and former office, judicial sources told Reuters. In a search carried out following a request by Naples prosecutors investigating a separate case for alleged corruption into defense group Finmeccanica, the magistrates found documents related to the Vatican bank IOR. ...

Dan Church to coach Canadian women's hockey team in 2014 Winter Olympics Posted: 06 Jun 2012 10:07 AM PDT OTTAWA - Dan Church will coach the Canadian women's hockey team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.

Scandal-hit Vatican says restoring trust will take time Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:04 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - It will take time to restore trust within the walls of the Vatican and ease the pain caused by a leaks scandal that led to the arrest of Pope Benedict's butler, the pontiff's spokesman said on Wednesday. "Clearly to restore a climate of serenity and trust is a process, it is not something that can be solved in a few days," said Father Federico Lombardi, the Vatican's chief spokesman. "But we have started and we are moving ahead," he said. ...

Kuwait ruler rejects death penalty for religious crimes Posted: 06 Jun 2012 08:03 AM PDT Kuwait's emir, Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, has refused to sign a bill passed by parliament stipulating the death penalty for major religious offences, sources in the assembly said Wednesday.

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