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• U.S. Presbyterian Church at crossroads over gay marriage
• Nine candles lit for France avalanche dead at church service
• Legal expert links PSU, Catholic church scandals
• Church bus crashes in Ga., minor injuries reported

U.S. Presbyterian Church at crossroads over gay marriage Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:18 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Midwestern minister Greg Smith is considering an act of ecclesiastical disobedience. Deeply sympathetic to gay rights since his son, Matty, came out as gay a decade ago, the lifelong Presbyterian told his son he will officiate at his wedding, defying church policy. "I believe that we're doing more harm than good prolonging the inevitable," said Smith, who at 64 is retired but still ministers in Des Moines, Iowa. "On this issue, there is no mechanism for pastors to express conscientious objection without either defying church authority or demitting from one's pastoral call. ...

Nine candles lit for France avalanche dead at church service Posted: 14 Jul 2012 01:11 PM PDT Nine candles burned on the altar of a church in the French Alps town of Chamonix on Saturday, one for each of the foreign climbers killed by an avalanche two days earlier.

Legal expert links PSU, Catholic church scandals Posted: 14 Jul 2012 12:06 AM PDT Legal experts say emails and other evidence from the Penn State sex abuse case suggest that Joe Paterno and other university officials put boys in danger with their failure to report sexual abuse allegations against Jerry Sandusky more than a decade ago.

Church bus crashes in Ga., minor injuries reported Posted: 13 Jul 2012 07:53 PM PDT Authorities say 18 Florida schoolchildren were sent to the hospital after a church bus crashed northwest of Atlanta.

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