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• Carpe Twitter: Vatican tweets on new Latin academy
• Catholic organization sues Danish game maker
• Archbishop: Church of England is blind, losing credibility
• Church of England leader: Vote needs explanation
• German churches, union both claim victory in strike case
• Pope warns Gaza conflict could spread

Carpe Twitter: Vatican tweets on new Latin academy Posted: 21 Nov 2012 01:33 PM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A senior Vatican cardinal tweeted in Latin on Wednesday to urge people to attend the inauguration of, you guessed it, the Holy's See's new Academy for Latin Studies. "Hodie una cum Ivano Dionigi novam aperiemus academiam pontificiam latinitatis a Benedicto conditam, hora XVII, via Conciliationis V," was the tweet by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi. The approximate translation: "Today at 5 p.m., along with Ivano Dionigi, we will open the new Pontifical Academy for Latin Studies founded by Benedict. Via della Conciliazione, 5. ...

Catholic organization sues Danish game maker Posted: 21 Nov 2012 09:42 AM PST Opus Dei, the elite and powerful organization within the Roman Catholic Church, is suing a Danish publisher for alleged trademark violations involving a card game titled "Opus Dei. Existence After Religion."

Archbishop: Church of England is blind, losing credibility Posted: 21 Nov 2012 08:12 AM PST LONDON (Reuters) - The Archbishop of Canterbury accused his Church of England of being willfully blind to the attitudes of modern British society on Wednesday after it voted 'no' to women bishops, a triumph for its traditionalist minority. After more than 10 years of divisive debate, the General Synod, the Church legislature, failed to pass the measure on Tuesday evening by just six votes despite the fact that 42 of the Church's 44 dioceses had earlier approved it. ...

Church of England leader: Vote needs explanation Posted: 21 Nov 2012 06:34 AM PST The Church of England has much explaining to do following its failure to vote to allow women to serve as bishops, its leader said Wednesday — and politicians from the prime minister downward are already demanding action or answers.

German churches, union both claim victory in strike case Posted: 21 Nov 2012 06:16 AM PST PARIS (Reuters) - Germany's main churches and a union that represents their employees have both claimed victory after the Federal Labour Court issued a Solomonic decision on whether church employees are allowed to strike. The Protestant and Roman Catholic Churches greeted the ruling as an endorsement of their system of resolving wage disputes through mediation, while the union said it confirmed church workers had the right to industrial action. German media reflected the split on Wednesday. "Church can ban strikes," read the headline in the conservative daily Die Welt. ...

Pope warns Gaza conflict could spread Posted: 21 Nov 2012 03:12 AM PST VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict on Wednesday urged Israeli and Palestinian leaders to make "courageous decisions" to end the Gaza conflict, saying it risked spilling over into the rest of the Middle East. He told pilgrims and tourists at his weekly general audience in St Peter's Square that he backed efforts to negotiate a ceasefire. ...

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