Jesus Seminar & the "Historical Jesus"

	William T. Galey The Jesus Seminar: Making Uncomplicated Things Complicated November 2000
	Andrea Burman Bejesus Seminar Discovers New Gospel in Desert, Common Sand & Call to Faction Supporters Jubilant March 1998
	William T. Galey The Shaky Foundations of the Jesus Seminar September 1997
	Adam Brooke Davis The Ineffectual Jesus of the Jesus Seminar July-August 1996

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Maryland
Workers at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds and later discovered the bags of money had only been left there for safekeeping under the Virgin's watchful eye.

Hong Kong
A Hong Kong student nicknamed the Chinese Warren Buffet has been accused of blackmailing a Catholic priest with intimate images, threatening to extort $800,000.

Maryland
Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, reporting initial findings in their look into causes of the Catholic church's 2002 sexual-abuse scandal, say they can't attribute it to gay priests.

California
Police arrested a 22-year-old Muslim man after he yelled, "Allah is power" and tore a crucifix from a customers's neck and scared others at a Bay area shopping center.

Washington DC
A Catholic coalition, citing several controversial grants to groups which opposed Church teaching, has called for reform of the U.S. bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Tanzania
A United Nations court has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder, and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said prosecution failed to prove its case.

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