Wednesday’s Religion News Roundup

Irish priests are worried that the government won’t give them an exemption for confession under the rules that make it mandatory to report child abuse. The government says the law is the law. The priests say confession is confession. Pope Benedict XVI will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel and longtime former leader Helmut Kohl when […]

Irish priests are worried that the government won’t give them an exemption for confession under the rules that make it mandatory to report child abuse. The government says the law is the law. The priests say confession is confession.

Pope Benedict XVI will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel and longtime former leader Helmut Kohl when he visits his native Germany in September.


On that same trip, he will also visit with Jewish and Muslim leaders. It’s the Pope’s third trip back to Germany since he became pope in 2005.

The 2011 Gaza flotilla, which amounted to a single yacht of pro-Palestinian activists, floated through the watery barricade of Gaza with no where near the disastrous results of the last flotilla organized to challenge Israel’s control of the Palestinian territory.

Is Michele Bachmann Baptist? A New York Times article notes that she has recently broken with her Lutheran church, which has been accused of being anti-Catholic, and quotes a friend who says she’s been attending a Baptist church.

A group of Hindu vegetarians is suing a new Jersey restaurant that served them meat-filled samosas after they ordered vegetarian ones. In their suit, the plaintiffs said they must take a costly trip to India for a purification ritual.

Bye Bye Campus Crusade For Christ, which is changing its name to “Cru.” “Crusade,” as we all know, is a problematic word. “Campus,” apparently, sounds dorky.

– Lauren Markoe

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