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    VATICAN CITY (Rueters) -- The
"new" Vatican newspaper was off
the press today and the reaction
has been incredible.
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    Street-corner venders in both "The
City" and downtown Rome were
sold out of copies of L'Osservatore
Romano almost before they knew it.
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    Father Guido Sarducci, the paper's
Puzzle editor, who was shading himself
with a beach umbrella, was shaking
hands with tourists and signing his
autograph  outside the Sistine Chapel.
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    Ed Conrad, the paper's new editor,
eliminated much of the religious hoopla
that had been boring readers and
putting them asleep for the past 150
years.
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    Instead, he replaced the scary crap
with comics, sports pages, Hollywood
gossip, a crossword puzzle, ads
for yard sales in Eastern Europe
and began decorating the double-
page "Cheese-Cake" centerfold with
color photos of the Most Beautiful
Women in the World Who Aren't
Italian.
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Here, for example, is the beauty
who'll be featured next week.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/digitalmedia/blog/images/anita-final.jpg
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    Another regular feature of edition will
be The Question of the Week for All
Good Catholics.

     Next week's' question: WHY IS POPE
JOHN XXIII FORCED TO TAKE A SLOW
BOAT TO CHINA FOR SAINTHOOD?
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    All replies must be limited to 5,000
words or less.
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    L'Osservatore Romano will award
a grand prize to the lucky subscriber
submitting the the very best answer.
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    Next week's prize is a neat 10-day
cruise on the Costa Titanic whose
sister ship -- the Costa Concordia --
is now being oogled by thousands
while docked near Giglio Island.
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    It should be noted that the old
L'Osservatore Roman had averaged
a circulation of 12,000 but the
Giornale associazione italiana
(Italian Newspaper Association)
confirmed that the new-look edition
has soared to 27,500 and keeps
growing by the minute.
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    Incidentally, the most popular article
in the first edition is a rip-snorting
column written by the good-looking
editor using the nom de plum Legally
Insane.
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   Here is a copy of that article since
it is highly doubtful that any copies
will be left to send through the mail.
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http://www.edconrad.org
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ROMAN CATHOLIC OFFICIAL WEB PAGES
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Roman Catholic Sources (68.1 million members)
        The Vatican: http://www.vatican.va/phome_en.htm
        Vatican Information Service: http://www.vatican.va/news_services/
        U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: http://www.nccbuscc.org/
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    Anglican Communion:
        Anglicans Online: http://anglicansonline.org/
        Episcopal Church in the USA (2): http://www.ecusa.anglican.org/
        Anglican Domain Committee: http://anglican.org/ They have
links to all known Anglican web sites at: http://anglican.org/official/
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    Eastern Orthodox:
        Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America (1.5): http://www.goarch.org/
        Orthodox Church in America: http://www.oca.org/
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    Protestant denominations:
        African Methodist Episcopal Church (2.5): http://www.ame-church.com
        African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (1.4): http://www.theamezionchurch.org/
        American Baptist Churches in the USA (1.3): http://www.abc-usa.org/
        Assemblies of God (2.9): http://www.ag.org/
        Baptist Bible Fellowship International (1.2): http://www.bbfi.org/
        The Evangelical Christian Church in Canada (?): http://www.cecconline.com/
        Christian Churches / Churches of Christ (1.1): http://www.cwv.edu/
        Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (<1): http://www.disciples.org/
        Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (<1): http://www.c-m-e.org/
        Church of Christ, Scientist: http://christianscience.com/
        Church of God in Christ (5.5): http://www.cogic.org/
        Church of God (Cleveland TN) (1.1): http://www.chofgod.org/
        Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (6.0):  http://www.lds.org/
        Church of the Nazarene (<1): http://www.nazarene.org/
        Churches of Christ (1.6): http://www.church-of-christ.org/
        Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (4.6): http://www.elca.org/
        Jehovah's Witnesses (1.1): http://www.watchtower.org/
        Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (2.3): http://www.lcms.org/
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OFFICIAL WEB SITES OF VARIOUS CANADIAN DENOMINATIONS
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Membership numbers, in hundreds of thousands, are given in
parentheses.
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    Anglican Church (2,188): http://www.anglican.ca/
    Baptist Churches (663):
        Baptist Convention of Ontario and Quebec: http://www.baptist.ca
        Baptist General Conference at Canada: http://www.bgc.ca/
        The Baptist Union of Western Canada: http://www.buwc.ca/
        The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada:
http://www.fellowship.ca/
        l'Union d'Eglises Baptistes Fran�aises au Canada:
http://www.unionbaptiste.com/
        United Baptist Convention of the Atlantic Provinces:
http://www.baptist-atlantic.ca/index.shtml
    Lutheran Churches (636):
        Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada: http://www.elcic.ca/
        Lutheran Church - Canada: http://www.lutheranchurch.ca/
    Pentecostal (436):
        Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada: http://www.acop.ca/
        Italian Pentecostal Church of Canada: http://www.the-ipcc.org/
        Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada: http://www.paoc.org/
        Pentecostal Assemblies of Newfoundland and Labrador:
http://www.paon.nf.ca/
        Pentecostal Holiness Church of Canada: http://www.phcc.ca/
    Presbyterian Church in Canada (636): http://www.presbyterian.ca/
    Roman Catholic Church (11,210): http://www.cccb.ca/
    United Church of Canada (3,093): http://www.uccan.org/home.htm
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        National Baptist Convention, U.S.A. (5.0): http://www.nationalbaptist.com/
It is also called the National Baptist Convention of America. Their
Youth and Children's Convention has a home page at:  http://members.aol.com/nbyc1/
        National Missionary Baptist Convention of America (2.5):
http://www.natl-missionarybaptist.com/
        Pentecostal Assemblies of the World (1.5): http://members.tripod.com/paw_inc/
        Presbyterian Church (USA) (2.8): http://www.pcusa.org/
        Progressive National Baptist Convention (2.5): http://www.pnbc.org/
        Seventh Day Adventists (<1): http://www.adventist.org/
        Southern Baptist Convention (16.2): http://www.sbc.net/sbcsplash/
        United Church of Christ (1.1): http://www.ucc.org/
        United Methodist Church (7.9): http://www.umc.org/