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• NC church mourns fiery bus crash that killed 8
• Polish church rejects damages in paedophile case
• Vatican administration needs total overhaul, cardinals tell pope
• Spanish anarchist group claims small church blast
• Catholic rebel Kueng, 85, considers assisted suicide
• Tightknit church group among the victims of a fiery bus crash that killed 8 in Tennessee
• Eight killed as church bus crashes into car, truck in Tennessee

NC church mourns fiery bus crash that killed 8 Posted: 03 Oct 2013 03:34 PM PDT DANDRIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — After the fiery crash of a church bus in Tennessee, Daniel Morrison knew a phone call would be coming.

Polish church rejects damages in paedophile case Posted: 03 Oct 2013 01:15 PM PDT Warsaw (AFP) - Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church on Thursday rejected a first-ever request for damages by a victim of a convicted paedophile priest, opening the door to legal action, judicial officials said.

Vatican administration needs total overhaul, cardinals tell pope Posted: 03 Oct 2013 08:35 AM PDT By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Cardinals advising Pope Francis on how to reform the Vatican believe the Holy See's central government is so problem-ridden that only a total overhaul can fix it, the Vatican said on Thursday. The unusually stark acknowledgement came on the third and final day of closed-door meetings between the pope and eight cardinals from around the world who are discussing the Vatican's troubled administration and mapping out possible changes in the worldwide Church. ...

Spanish anarchist group claims small church blast Posted: 03 Oct 2013 07:24 AM PDT MADRID (AP) — A Spanish anarchist group has claimed responsibility for setting off an explosive device in a cathedral, saying it was because of the church's alleged links with Spain's fascist past.

Catholic rebel Kueng, 85, considers assisted suicide Posted: 03 Oct 2013 06:49 AM PDT By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor PARIS (Reuters) - Hans Kueng, Roman Catholicism's best known rebel theologian, is considering capping a life of challenges to the Vatican with a final act of dissent - assisted suicide. Kueng, now 85 and suffering from Parkinson's disease, writes in final volume of his memoirs that people have a right to "surrender" their lives to God voluntarily if illness, pain or dementia make further living unbearable. ...

Tightknit church group among the victims of a fiery bus crash that killed 8 in Tennessee Posted: 03 Oct 2013 12:13 AM PDT DANDRIDGE, Tenn. - For months, a tight-knit group of seniors at a North Carolina church had been looking forward to the road trip.

Eight killed as church bus crashes into car, truck in Tennessee Posted: 02 Oct 2013 07:13 PM PDT By Tim Ghianni NASHVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - Eight people were killed on Wednesday when a tire blew out on a bus carrying passengers from a church outing and it crossed over the median on a Tennessee interstate and crashed into a sport-utility vehicle and a truck, officials said. Six people were killed on the bus, which was from Statesville, North Carolina. The crash also killed one person in the SUV and one person in the tractor trailer truck, highway patrol spokeswoman Dalya Qualls said. A total of 14 people were injured, eight critically, authorities said. ...

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