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• Vatican gets report card on financial transparency
• Advancing radical Islamists lay waste to religious heritage
• Pope defends Vatican number two after leaks scandal
• Pope praises Vatican's No. 2 official
• Pope backs deputy at center of butler furor
• Vatican's No. 2 official praised

Vatican gets report card on financial transparency Posted: 04 Jul 2012 02:49 PM PDT The Vatican got a report card Wednesday on its efforts to be more financially transparent — but it's a secret for now.

Advancing radical Islamists lay waste to religious heritage Posted: 04 Jul 2012 12:32 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - The grim sacking of Sufi shrines in Timbuktu is the latest chapter in an assault on prized religious heritage across the Muslim world that has picked up over the past decade with the spread of radical Islamism. The world got a first taste of this iconoclasm in 2001, when Afghanistan's ruling Taliban blew up two huge 6th-century statues of Buddha despite an international outcry. Since then, radical Islamists have also struck holy sites of other faiths, especially Christian churches. ...

Pope defends Vatican number two after leaks scandal Posted: 04 Jul 2012 06:46 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI defended his Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone against "unjust criticism" on Wednesday, after leaked confidential documents revealed growing opposition to the powerful prelate.

Pope praises Vatican's No. 2 official Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:58 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI has defended the Vatican's No. 2 official, saying the Italian media have leveled "unjust criticism" at Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

Pope backs deputy at center of butler furor Posted: 04 Jul 2012 05:56 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Wednesday expressed full support for his deputy, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, the chief target of of leaked documents which the pontiff's butler has been charged with stealing. Benedict's butler, Paolo Gabriele, was arrested at the end of May and charged with stealing the pope's private papers. He remains locked up in a Vatican police "safe room". The leaked documents allege graft over the awarding of infrastructure projects and a poisonous power struggle between rival groups of cardinals - the princes of the Church. ...

Vatican's No. 2 official praised Posted: 04 Jul 2012 04:18 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI has defended the Vatican's No. 2 official, saying the Italian media have leveled "unjust criticism" at Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone.

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