France’s top rabbi Gilles Bernheim quits in plagiarism row
Rabbi Bernheim had admitted to plagiarising several authors and lying about an academic status on his CV, reports said.
Religion
Russian clerics forgive Pussy Riot for Putin rant
Russia’s top Orthodox clerics on Saturday asked for mercy for the punk band Pussy Riot for its anti-government protest in a Moscow cathedral, but the church’s forgiveness is unlikely to change the band’s punishment in a case that caused an international furor over political dissent.
Pussy Riot members sentenced to 2 years in prison
A Moscow judge sentenced three members of the provocative punk band Pussy Riot to two years in prison on hooliganism charges on Friday following a trial seen around the world as an emblem of Russia’s intolerance of dissent.
Muslims and Jews fight German circumcision ban
European Jewish and Muslim groups have joined forces to defend circumcision for young boys on religious grounds after a German regional court ruled it amounted to bodily harm.
Vatican criticizes US nun’s book on sexuality
Farley, for example, writes that masturbation doesn’t raise any moral problems and can actually help relationships rather than hinder them. The Vatican asserted that according to church teaching “masturbation is an intrinsically and gravely disordered action.”
Dutch Catholic abuse affected thousands
Tens of thousands of children have suffered sexual abuse in Dutch Catholic institutions since 1945, a report says. The report by an independent commission said Catholic officials had failed to tackle the widespread abuse at schools, seminaries and orphanages.
Report: 40 priests accused of abuse
An independent review has revealed that allegations of child abuse have been made against 40 priests in the Down and Connor diocese over the past 50 years. Twenty of the priests concerned are still alive, and eight of those are currently under investigation.
2 Opus Dei followers on trial in France
Defense lawyers portrayed it as a case about labor law, while an Opus Dei spokeswoman says the plaintiff in a Paris court chose of her own free will to follow the group.
Religious broadcaster: it’s OK to divorce because of wife’s Alzheimer’s
Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson told his “700 Club” viewers that divorcing a spouse with Alzheimer’s is justifiable because the disease is “a kind of death.”
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