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• Vatican commission clears John Paul II for sainthood, may be canonized with John XXIII
• Egypt's tweeting Pope hails army, revolutionary youth
• Prosecutors consider trial for ex-Vatican bank managers: sources
• Vatican panel clears John Paul II for sainthood
• Reports: Prosecutors wrap up probe of Vatican bank
• NBC announces sequel to 'The Bible' miniseries
• Records: Archbishop paid problem priests to leave
• Vatican commission clears John Paul II sainthood
• Two Vatican Bank Officials Resign Amid Latest Wave of Scandals
• Yoga in school not same as teaching religion, California judge rules

Vatican commission clears John Paul II for sainthood, may be canonized with John XXIII Posted: 02 Jul 2013 02:16 PM PDT VATICAN CITY - Pope John Paul II has cleared the final obstacle before being made a saint, awaiting just the final approval from Pope Francis and a date for the ceremony that could come as soon as Dec. 8, a Vatican official and news reports said Tuesday.

Egypt's tweeting Pope hails army, revolutionary youth Posted: 02 Jul 2013 01:06 PM PDT CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt's Pope Tawadros tweeted his blessing on Tuesday for a youth-led revolt against Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and for army moves to end a political crisis that the ruling Muslim Brotherhood have denounced as a coup. Reflecting deep anxiety among Egypt's millions of Christians since last year's election victories Mursi and the Brotherhood, the head of the Coptic Church said on Twitter: "A salute, in tribute and glorification, to the trio that makes Egypt great: the people ... the army ... and youth. "Long live my country, free and strong. ...

Prosecutors consider trial for ex-Vatican bank managers: sources Posted: 02 Jul 2013 12:16 PM PDT By Paolo Biondi ROME (Reuters) - Rome prosecutors are considering requesting that two directors of the Vatican bank who resigned on Monday be sent to trial on suspicion of authorizing illegal financial transactions, judicial sources said on Tuesday. The Vatican bank's director general, Paolo Cipriani, and its deputy director, Massimo Tulli, left after the arrest of a senior cleric who is accused of plotting to smuggle 20 million euros ($26 million) into Italy from Switzerland. A spokesman from the Vatican bank, known formally as the Institute for Works of Religion (IOR), declined to comment. ...

Vatican panel clears John Paul II for sainthood Posted: 02 Jul 2013 11:48 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope John Paul II has cleared the final obstacle before being made a saint, awaiting just the final approval from Pope Francis and a date for the ceremony that could come as soon as Dec. 8, a Vatican official and news reports said Tuesday.

Reports: Prosecutors wrap up probe of Vatican bank Posted: 02 Jul 2013 11:32 AM PDT Prosecutors have wrapped up their money-laundering investigation into the Vatican bank and are focusing on the institute's two recently resigned managers, Italian news reports said Tuesday in the latest ...

NBC announces sequel to 'The Bible' miniseries Posted: 02 Jul 2013 07:28 AM PDT NBC says it will air a sequel to the hit cable miniseries "The Bible." The network said Monday that it will join with producer Mark Burnett and his actress-wife, Roma Downey, on the sequel. Burnett ...

Records: Archbishop paid problem priests to leave Posted: 02 Jul 2013 07:05 AM PDT The archbishop of Milwaukee wrote a letter in 2003 to the Vatican office overseeing clergy sex abuse cases begging it to remove a priest who had repeatedly abused children, showed no remorse and at least ...

Vatican commission clears John Paul II sainthood Posted: 02 Jul 2013 06:30 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — A Vatican official says Pope John Paul II has cleared the final obstacle before being made a saint.

Two Vatican Bank Officials Resign Amid Latest Wave of Scandals Posted: 01 Jul 2013 08:40 PM PDT Days after the arrest of a high-ranking official at the Vatican Bank, the director of the Catholic institution, along with his deputy, resigned on Monday. It's all part of the infinite saga of corruption within the institution officially known as the Institute of Religious Works, the secretive financial wing of the Vatican that can't seem to stop getting implicated in money laundering plots. And the bank's new president, Ernst von Freyberg, is taking advantage of the leadership sweep to talk about reforming the institution.

Yoga in school not same as teaching religion, California judge rules Posted: 01 Jul 2013 06:16 PM PDT By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A California judge refused on Monday to block the teaching of yoga as part of a public school's physical fitness program, rejecting parents' claims that the classes were an unconstitutional promotion of Eastern religions. Judge John Meyer acknowledged that yoga "at its roots is religious" but added that the modern practice of yoga, despite its origins in Hindu philosophy, is deeply engrained in secular U.S. society and "is a distinctly American cultural phenomenon. ...

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