The editor of the Jesuit weekly America is leaving the magazine after the Vatican received complaints about articles he published on touchy issues such as same-sex marriages and stem cell research, Jesuit officials said Friday. The Rev. Thomas Reese, a widely respected expert on the Catholic Church and the Vatican who was editor for seven years, is being replaced by his deputy, the magazine said. The Vatican has had a sometimes tense relationship with the Jesuits, some of whose members have questioned pronouncements on birth control, priestly celibacy and the ban on women priests.
France: Software spurs porn arrests
Police using software to spot the downloading of child pornography from the Internet raided homes in eight European countries, police said Friday. In all the homes of 100 people were searched in France, Sweden, Italy, Denmark, Poland, Norway, Malta and the Netherlands, police in Sweden said. Investigators identified suspects using French computer software that monitors the Internet, French police said.
Romania: Troops will stay in Iraq
Romania’s foreign minister said Friday his government would keep its troops in Iraq supporting postwar operations despite the kidnapping of three Romanian journalists. “We will not yield to blackmail,” Foreign Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu said. “What is not at stake is Romanian foreign policy.” Romanian President Traian Basescu said Monday the journalists kidnapped March 28 were alive. Their captors threatened last week to kill them if Romania failed to withdraw its 800 troops from Iraq.
Correction
Vessels from the nations of Democratic Republic of Congo, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mauritania and Nauru will be denied entry into U.S. ports unless the nations comply with the international port security code. An item from the Associated Press in the Nation Briefly column on Page A3 Friday erroneously included two additional nations on the blacklist, but those nations have reported compliance with the security code.
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