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• Trial of Pope Benedict's former butler to start on Saturday
• No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy
• No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy
• "Gospel of Jesus' wife" fragment is a fake, Vatican says
• Vatican Says Papyrus Mentioning Jesus' Wife is 'Fake'
• Did the butler do it? A Q&A on the Vatican trial
• Mormon website editor's church discipline hearing suspended

Trial of Pope Benedict's former butler to start on Saturday Posted: 28 Sep 2012 04:01 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict's former butler, Paolo Gabriele, goes on trial on Saturday in one of the most embarrassing episodes in recent Vatican history. The trial of the 46-year-old man who served the pope his meals and helped him dress is due to start at 9:30 a.m. (4.30 p.m. EDT) in the Vatican's little-used tribunal, a small room with rich paneled wood and a papal emblem on its ceiling. ...

No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:20 PM PDT The road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics. If they don't pay their religious taxes, they will be denied sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and funerals.

No tax, no blessing: German church insists on levy Posted: 28 Sep 2012 12:18 PM PDT The road to heaven is paved with more than good intentions for Germany's 24 million Catholics. If they don't pay their religious taxes, they will be denied sacraments, including weddings, baptisms and ...

"Gospel of Jesus' wife" fragment is a fake, Vatican says Posted: 28 Sep 2012 08:11 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - An ancient papyrus fragment which a Harvard scholar says contains the first recorded mention that Jesus may have had a wife is a fake, the Vatican said on Friday. "Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery," the Vatican's newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano, said in an editorial by its editor, Gian Maria Vian. "In any case, it's a fake. ...

Vatican Says Papyrus Mentioning Jesus' Wife is 'Fake' Posted: 28 Sep 2012 07:02 AM PDT The Vatican is speaking out on the discovery of a fragment of papyrus containing a reference to Jesus' "wife" in Coptic. Its blunt verdict? Don't get so excited everyone, it's not real. Naomi O'Leary of : "Substantial reasons would lead one to conclude that the papyrus is indeed a clumsy forgery." It continued:  "In any case, it's a fake."

Did the butler do it? A Q&A on the Vatican trial Posted: 28 Sep 2012 05:48 AM PDT The Vatican has never seen anything like it.

Mormon website editor's church discipline hearing suspended Posted: 27 Sep 2012 07:14 PM PDT SALT LAKE CITY (Reuters) - The Florida-based editor of a Mormon-themed website facing disciplinary action and possible excommunication over his writings said on Thursday his Orlando-area church leaders had suspended a hearing to decide his fate. David Twede's posts on MormonThink.com offer his account of the history of the church's political involvement, criticism of fellow Mormon and Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, and the author's take on Mormon beliefs about the nature of God and temple ceremonies. Twede, a 47-year-old, fifth-generation Mormon and MormonThink. ...

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