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• Macedonian Orthodox Church bans Facebook for priests
• Pope's No. 2 released from hospital
• Vatican's US donors get access for a $500 pittance
• Why Pope Francis won't cause a schism in the U.S. religious right
• Best bargain at the Vatican: $500 buys access, and helps restore Vatican Museum treasures
• Mistakes made in Catholic clergy sex abuse probes: Minnesota archbishop

Macedonian Orthodox Church bans Facebook for priests Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:01 PM PDT Skopje (AFP) - Macedonia'a Orthodox Church on Friday ordered its priests and nuns not to use Facebook or be ready to face unnamed sanctions, church officials said.

Pope's No. 2 released from hospital Posted: 25 Oct 2013 09:45 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican's new No. 2 official was released from a hospital on Friday after more than 10 days of treatment.

Vatican's US donors get access for a $500 pittance Posted: 25 Oct 2013 06:14 AM PDT VATICAN CITY (AP) — They entered the Sistine Chapel in tuxedoes and gowns, the clacking of high heels on marble competing with the Latin chants of a choir filling the frescoed hall.

Why Pope Francis won't cause a schism in the U.S. religious right Posted: 25 Oct 2013 03:38 AM PDT Protestants and Catholics used to eye each other with mistrust, even deep theological enmity. But somewhere in the midst of shouting matches over the relative merits of grace versus good works, idolatry versus sainthood, and fealty to Rome, an alliance of sorts formed between conservative Catholics and evangelical Protestants in America. Opposition to abortion, gay rights, and creeping secularism got both sides singing from the same hymnal. The Religious Right was born.

Best bargain at the Vatican: $500 buys access, and helps restore Vatican Museum treasures Posted: 24 Oct 2013 11:21 PM PDT VATICAN CITY - They entered the Sistine Chapel in tuxedoes and gowns, the clacking of high heels on marble competing with the Latin chants of a choir filling the frescoed hall.

Mistakes made in Catholic clergy sex abuse probes: Minnesota archbishop Posted: 24 Oct 2013 05:38 PM PDT MINNEAPOLIS (Reuters) - The Roman Catholic archbishop of the Minneapolis-St. Paul Archdiocese said on Thursday that serious mistakes had been made in the archdiocese's investigations of allegations of sex abuse by clergy and he has ordered a review of all of its files by an outside firm. "To those who have been hurt, to the victims of clergy abuse and their family members, I can only tell you how sorry I am," Archbishop John Nienstedt said in the archdiocese's official publication. "I realize how damaging such actions are in violating the care of their human dignity. ...

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