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• Nobel Peace Prize could go to dissidents, EU, religious leaders
• Review: 'Heresy' a sharp reinvention of the Bible
• Pope acknowledges "bad fish" in Church
• NY church clerk who stole $1 million gets up to 9 years prison
• Pope's former butler will not appeal sentence
• Senegal: Graves desecrated in Christian cemeteries
• Pope warns lapsed Catholics of "spiritual desertification"
• Pope marks 50th anniversary of Vatican II

Nobel Peace Prize could go to dissidents, EU, religious leaders Posted: 11 Oct 2012 05:06 PM PDT OSLO (Reuters) - The Nobel Peace Prize Committee announces its 2012 laureate on Friday with prize watchers favoring east European dissidents, the European Union itself or religious leaders working on Muslim-Christian reconciliation. "The long term trend is that the world is indeed getting more peaceful," said Geir Lundestad, the head of the Norwegian Nobel Institute. "Still, every year (picking the winner) is difficult. ...

Review: 'Heresy' a sharp reinvention of the Bible Posted: 11 Oct 2012 05:05 PM PDT America might be in for a restive and godless future, although in A.R. Gurney's clever new satire, "Heresy," some situations sound rather familiar. Except it's a place where "The Greatest Story" was never told.

Pope acknowledges "bad fish" in Church Posted: 11 Oct 2012 02:56 PM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict urged lapsed and lukewarm Roman Catholics on Thursday to rediscover their faith but acknowledged there are "bad fish" in the Church itself. The pope made his comments at two large events before thousands of people in St. Peter's Square on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, a far-reaching event in the Church's 2,000-year history. "Recent decades have seen the advance of a spiritual desertification," he said in his sermon of a morning Mass, opening a worldwide "Year of Faith". "We see it all around us ... ...

NY church clerk who stole $1 million gets up to 9 years prison Posted: 11 Oct 2012 02:29 PM PDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - A 67-year-old woman was sentenced to up to nine years in prison for embezzling more than $1 million from the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York, much of it spent on expensive dolls, prosecutors said on Thursday. In the years she worked as the church accounts payable clerk, Anita Collins stole $1,073,000 by writing 450 checks to herself and making them look like payments to vendors, Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. said. ...

Pope's former butler will not appeal sentence Posted: 11 Oct 2012 10:48 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Paolo Gabriele, Pope Benedict's former butler who leaked sensitive Vatican documents, believes his sentence of 18 months under house arrest is fair and will not appeal it, his lawyer said on Thursday. Cristiana Arru told Reuters that Gabriele wanted the sentence, handed down last Saturday when he was convicted of aggravated theft, to stand because he thought it was reasonable. "Paolo had decided from the start decided that he wanted to pay the consequences for his actions. If we appealed, it would mean the opposite," she said. ...

Senegal: Graves desecrated in Christian cemeteries Posted: 11 Oct 2012 08:48 AM PDT Roman Catholic church officials say nearly 160 graves have been desecrated in the two largest Christian cemeteries in Senegal's capital.

Pope warns lapsed Catholics of "spiritual desertification" Posted: 11 Oct 2012 05:14 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict urged lapsed and lukewarm Roman Catholics on Thursday to rediscover their Church and stop the advance of "spiritual desertification". The pope made his comments in the homily of a Mass before tens of thousands in St Peter's Square on the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, a far-reaching event in the Church's 2,000-year history. "Recent decades have seen the advance of a spiritual desertification," he said, opening a worldwide "Year of Faith". "We see it all around us ... the void has spread. ...

Pope marks 50th anniversary of Vatican II Posted: 11 Oct 2012 03:28 AM PDT Pope Benedict XVI on Thursday marked the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council — the church meetings he attended as a young priest that brought the Catholic Church into the modern world but whose true meaning is still hotly debated.

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