Pope Benedict to visit U.S., meet with Bush, U.N.

Associated Press by Rachel Zoll | Nov. 13, 2007 (News Report)

he announcement comes as the 67 million-member American church grapples with a priest shortage and an often alienated flock, and is still recovering from the clergy sex abuse crisis. American dioceses have paid more than $2 billion in settlements with victims since 1950. Full Story »

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 by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The writer manages to restrain himself to basic facts and official statements. No mention of the pope's youth in the Hitler youth corps. No suggestion that he wants catholic positions in the proseletising of the US military academies. No mention of a faith-based bail-out for the sex scandal suits. No mention of current papal condemnation of the immoral Iraq invasion. Boring.

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