2013年2月21日星期四

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NY Jets quarterback Tebow cancels controversial church appearance

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 05:10 PM PST

Jets' Tebow on the bench against the Bills in Orchard Park(Reuters) - New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow, a devout Christian, has canceled an appearance at a Dallas mega-church led by a prominent pastor who has sparked controversy over remarks he made from the pulpit about gays and other religions. Tebow, 25, who famously kneels in prayer on the football field in a move that has come to be known as "Tebowing," called off his April 28 appearance in a series of Twitter messages on Thursday. ...


Tim Tebow Betrays the Christian Right

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 11:16 AM PST

He gained a few unexpected fans in the gay community today, but notoriously God-fearing quarterback Tim Tebow may have scared off the very supporters who saw him as a Christian celebrity even as his NFL career has fizzled — they're calling his about-face on an anti-gay marriage pastor "disastrous," and declaring "his street cred with the evangelical community" all but gone.

Vatican feuds, fiefdoms, betrayals await next pope

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 10:35 AM PST

FILE - This Sept. 15, 2006 file photo released by the Vatican's newspaper L'Osservatore Romano shows Pope Benedict XVI, at center, presiding a meeting with outgoing Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Angelo Sodano, left foreground in red, and the new Vatican's No. 2 official Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, right foreground in red, during a meeting at the Vatican. After 35 years under two "scholar'' popes who paid scant attention to the internal governance of the Catholic Church, a chorus is growing that the next pontiff must have a solid track record managing a complicated bureaucracy. Benedict was well aware of the problems, having spent nearly a quarter-century in the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. But he never entered into the Vatican's political fray as a cardinal _ and as pope left it to his No. 2, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, to do the job. (AP Photo/L'Osservatore Romano, ho, files)VATICAN CITY (AP) — If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A.


Tebow cancels talk at controversial Dallas church

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 09:27 AM PST

DALLAS (AP) — New York Jets quarterback Tim Tebow has backed out of an appearance at a Baptist mega church in Dallas run by a pastor who has created controversy with his remarks about gays and other faiths.

Feuds, fiefdoms, betrayals underscore need for a manager pope to reform "ungovernable" Vatican

Posted: 21 Feb 2013 05:47 AM PST

VATICAN CITY - If evidence was ever needed that the next pope must urgently overhaul the powerful Vatican bureaucracy called the Curia, the scandal over Pope Benedict XVI's private papers is Exhibit A.
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