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• Pope convenes cardinals to discuss leak scandal
• Vatican hires U.S. journalist to help media relations
• Fox correspondent named senior Vatican communications adviser
• Palestinians push Nativity church as Heritage site
• Giving to religious institutions drops for second year in a row. Why?

Pope convenes cardinals to discuss leak scandal Posted: 23 Jun 2012 02:35 PM PDT Pope Benedict XVI convened a special meeting of cardinals Saturday for advice on how to deal with the Vatican's leaked documents scandal — another sign of the damage the leaks have done to trust in the Holy See's governance.

Vatican hires U.S. journalist to help media relations Posted: 23 Jun 2012 01:42 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - The Vatican, stung by communications blunders and mired in a leaks scandal, has hired an American journalist from Fox News and member of the conservative Catholic group Opus Dei to help improve its relations with the media. The TV journalist, Greg Burke, and the Vatican on Saturday confirmed what a senior Church source had earlier told Reuters. Burke, Fox's Rome-based roving correspondent for Europe and the Middle East, will assume the new post of "senior communications adviser" to the Secretariat of State, the key department in the Vatican's central bureaucracy. ...

Fox correspondent named senior Vatican communications adviser Posted: 23 Jun 2012 10:13 AM PDT VATICAN CITY - The Associated Press has learned that the Fox news correspondent in Rome has been brought in by the Vatican to help improve its communications strategy as it tries to cope with one of its most serious scandals in decades.

Palestinians push Nativity church as Heritage site Posted: 22 Jun 2012 11:36 PM PDT The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is becoming the church of contention, with a bid by the Palestinians to use their position as the newest members of the U.N.'s cultural arm to obtain World Heritage status for the iconic Christian site — and perhaps boost their own campaign for legitimacy.

Giving to religious institutions drops for second year in a row. Why? Posted: 22 Jun 2012 02:36 PM PDT Church congregations may need to pass the offering plate again because giving to religious institutions has dropped for the second year in a row.

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