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• Philadelphia Catholic church passes school management to foundation
• Philly Catholic high schools get outside manager
• Appeal planned in Vatican sex abuse suit: lawyer
• Romney opening up _ a little _ about his religion
• Church & Dwight rises after agreeing to buy Avid
• Vatican win: Judge says priests aren't employees
• Ryan says he's happy to cling to guns, religion
• Militant South Africa union marches with Bible, witchcraft
• Three religions meet in suburban Paris prayer space
• Cyprus' Orthodox Church feels cash crunch
• Mormon, Bible-Belt states are top givers to charities: report
• Judge dismisses clergy abuse case that accused Vatican

Philadelphia Catholic church passes school management to foundation Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:05 PM PDT PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) - The Archdiocese of Philadelphia unveiled plans on Tuesday for the nation's first independently managed Catholic school system, aimed at increasing an enrollment. The newly created Faith in the Future Foundation will manage 17 high schools and four special education schools, where a total of 16,000 students are currently enrolled, said Archbishop Charles Chaput. Church parishes will continue to operate 123 elementary schools in the Catholic system. Headed by H. ...

Philly Catholic high schools get outside manager Posted: 21 Aug 2012 02:22 PM PDT Roman Catholic high schools in the Philadelphia area will soon be managed by a private foundation, a historic arrangement that could reinvigorate a system decimated by high costs and low enrollment, church officials announced Tuesday.

Appeal planned in Vatican sex abuse suit: lawyer Posted: 21 Aug 2012 01:44 PM PDT A US man who sued the Vatican after years of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of a Roman Catholic priest plans to appeal a court ruling dismissing the case, his attorney said Tuesday.

Romney opening up _ a little _ about his religion Posted: 21 Aug 2012 11:27 AM PDT Mitt Romney is starting to open up a bit more about his lifelong commitment to Mormonism and his lay leadership in the church, following pleas from backers who say that talking about his faith could help him overcome his struggles to connect with voters.

Church & Dwight rises after agreeing to buy Avid Posted: 21 Aug 2012 10:28 AM PDT Shares of Church & Dwight Co. rose Tuesday after the company said it will buy vitamin maker Avid Health.THE SPARK: Church & Dwight said Monday that it will buy Avid for $650 million in stock. Avid's products ...

Vatican win: Judge says priests aren't employees Posted: 21 Aug 2012 10:06 AM PDT The Vatican won a major victory Monday in an Oregon federal courtroom, where a judge ruled that the Holy See is not the employer of molester priests.The decision by U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman ...

Ryan says he's happy to cling to guns, religion Posted: 21 Aug 2012 09:12 AM PDT Republican Paul Ryan is criticizing President Barack Obama for a remark the Democrat made four years ago about voters clinging to guns and religion.

Militant South Africa union marches with Bible, witchcraft Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:47 AM PDT RUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - Its leaders call themselves devout Christians and say life is sacred. But its supporters march with spears, machetes and clubs and anoint themselves with magic potions to ward off police bullets. By taking on South Africa's powerful mining houses and the politically-connected NUM mineworkers' union, breakaway union AMCU has put itself at the heart of national soul-searching after Thursday's police shooting of 34 striking platinum miners at a mine northwest of Johannesburg. ...

Three religions meet in suburban Paris prayer space Posted: 21 Aug 2012 08:38 AM PDT BUSSY-SAINT-GEORGES, France (Reuters) - Chief Abbess Manchen Shih gazed through a first-floor window of her vast wood and concrete temple as shaven-headed nuns in mustard robes prepared for midday prayers, cooking rice as an offering to the Buddha. "Look! You can see the mosque and the Laotian temple," she said, gesturing at two half-finished buildings rising from a weed-ridden site in Bussy-Saint-Georges, 30 km (20 miles) east of Paris. Like many of the new towns that have sprung up since the 1960s to ease urban overcrowding, more than half of Bussy's 25,000 residents are immigrants. ...

Cyprus' Orthodox Church feels cash crunch Posted: 21 Aug 2012 05:14 AM PDT The leader of Cyprus' Orthodox Christian Church said Tuesday that senior clergy and staff earning over €2,000 ($2,460) a month are in for salary cuts as the island nation's ongoing financial crisis has seen church revenue dwindle.

Mormon, Bible-Belt states are top givers to charities: report Posted: 20 Aug 2012 08:52 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans in Utah, Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina and Idaho gave the highest percentage of their income to charities in 2008, according to a report released on Monday analyzing the most recent comprehensive data from the Internal Revenue Service. With two of the top states home to large Mormon populations and seven others comprising the so-called Bible Belt of heavily Protestant Christian states, rates of charitable giving appeared linked to religion, the report said. ...

Judge dismisses clergy abuse case that accused Vatican Posted: 20 Aug 2012 05:25 PM PDT CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. federal judge in Oregon dismissed a clergy sexual abuse case on Monday that was the first to try to hold the Vatican responsible for moving an offending priest into unsuspecting parishes, lawyers in the case said. U.S. District Court Judge Michael Mosman in Portland, Oregon, ruled the Holy See in Rome could not be shown to be the "employer" of the late Father Andrew Ronan, who abused children in Chicago and later in Portland. ...

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