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• Jury labors to reach verdict in Philadelphia church case
• Vatican offers traditionalists way to reconcile
• Palestinians maintain UNESCO bid for Nativity church
• Pope still planning Lebanon trip despite Syria crisis
• Vatican gives traditionalists proposal for reconciliation in a bid to end schism

Jury labors to reach verdict in Philadelphia church case Posted: 14 Jun 2012 03:24 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The jury in the child sex abuse trial of a Roman Catholic monsignor in Philadelphia ended an eighth day of deliberations without a verdict on Thursday. Defense tactics provoked irritated retorts from the prosecution and the judge, while the defense spoke of a jury "struggling" to reach a decision after a 10-week trial. Monsignor William Lynn, the highest-ranking U.S. church official to stand trial in the wide-ranging pedophilia scandal, is accused of conspiracy and child endangerment. ...

Vatican offers traditionalists way to reconcile Posted: 14 Jun 2012 10:52 AM PDT The Vatican has formally proposed a way to reconcile with a breakaway group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics in a final bid to end a quarter-century of schism, offering it a special legal status in the church currently enjoyed only by the conservative Opus Dei movement.

Palestinians maintain UNESCO bid for Nativity church Posted: 14 Jun 2012 10:39 AM PDT The Palestinians plan to go ahead with their bid to put one of Christianity's holiest sites on UNESCO's World Heritage List despite a negative report by experts, their envoy to the body said Thursday.

Pope still planning Lebanon trip despite Syria crisis Posted: 14 Jun 2012 07:47 AM PDT Preparations for Pope Benedict XVI's trip to Lebanon in September are going ahead despite the escalating conflict in neighbouring Syria, the Vatican said on Thursday.

Vatican gives traditionalists proposal for reconciliation in a bid to end schism Posted: 14 Jun 2012 07:16 AM PDT VATICAN CITY - The Vatican has formally proposed a way to reconcile with a breakaway group of ultra-traditionalist Catholics in a final bid to end a quarter-century of schism, offering it a special legal status in the church currently enjoyed only by the conservative Opus Dei movement.

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