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VATICAN CITY (RNS) When Pope Benedict XVI travels to Portugal next week (May 11-14), the primary purpose will be to worship at the world-famous shrine to the Virgin Mary at Fatima. Yet the pope is also likely to use the four-day visit to address top-level concerns, including the Catholic Church’s crisis over clerical sex abuse,…

SAN FRANCISCO – A federal appeals court says Orange County officials acted legally when they ordered a Muslim inmate in a courthouse holding cell to remove her headscarf. The U.S. Court of Appeals said Monday that since Souhair Khatib was detained for only eight hours, the holding cell didn’t qualify as a penal institution covered…

(RNS) Nearly three-quarters of U.S. Catholics believe the Vatican tried to cover up clergy sex abuse, and a majority says Pope Benedict XVI has handled recent reports of past abuse poorly, according to a new poll, but less than 10 percent have considered leaving the Catholic Church over the issue. The Vatican has been besieged…

(RNS) Southern Baptist theologian Jim Hamilton doesn’t write a lot of parables. But he recently posted an original one on his blog in a bid to delegitimize a popular author who Hamilton says is falsely advertising himself as an evangelical. In the parable, author Brian McLaren transforms a Whole Foods Market into a McDonald’s, yet…
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