The plot, and ethical questions, grow thicker. Apparently, Osama bin Laden was unarmed when Navy SEALS shot him. And so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” may have led the U.S. to his compound.
VP Joe Biden fingered rosary beads on Sunday afternoon as the president and advisers gathered in the Situation Room to monitor the operation, the NYT reports.
American Muslims continue to view OBL’s death as the dawn of a “new era” in their complicated lives since 9/11. Last Saturday, government officials admitted to Muslims that they are often subjected to a higher degree of scrutiny when they travel.
In Pakistan, a militant Muslim leader said OBL’s “martyrdom” would not be in vain, Reuters reports. The Dalai Lama suggested that the U.S. was justified in killing OBL. “If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures,” he told a California audience.
OBL wasn’t much of a theologian, CNN reports, but he was a “model neighbor,” according to the NYT. When a ball flew into the compound, the owners never let children retrieve it but gave them 50 rupees to buy a new one, and kept paying when the children began to throw balls into the compound on purpose to get more money.
A federal judge upheld the convictions of four men who plotted to blow up synagogues in the Bronx, but chided the government’s “troubling” case for relying on the work of an informer whose methods bordered on entrapment, the NYT reports.
A basilica in Iowa canceled Newt Gingrich’s upcoming appearance because it had become too political. Rick Santorum’s wife said the 2012 presidential race will be about “defending God’s truth in the world.”
The trial of a former Catholic bishop accused of possessing graphic images of child sexual abuse begins today in Ottawa.
Does this alter the narrative of an increasingly godless Europe? Attendance at services in Church of England cathedrals has increased by 37 percent since 2001.
The Church of Scientology says Russian authorities have lifted a ban on some of its publications. The Catholic Church reminded bloggers about the virtue of charity. The United Methodist Church’s high court yet again nixed gay marriage.
“The Book of Mormon” led all of Broadway with 14 Tony Award nominations. Katy Perry’s mom says the poptart would make a great televangelist. Actor Jim Caviezel said he has been “rejected” by Hollywood since playing Jesus.
The crucified body of a man wearing a crown of thorns was found in South Korea.
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Daniel Burke