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Quote of the Day. "The 8 p.m. hour in cable news world is currently driven by the indomitable Bill O'Reilly, Nancy Grace, and Keith Olbermann. Shedding my own journalistic skin to try to inhabit the kind of persona that might co-exist in that line up is simply impossible for me. It is not who I am or who I want to be." Prime-time anchor Campbell Brown explaining why she's leaving CNN. (New York Times media blog)

RELIGION IN THE NEWS

Baptist peace group counters NRA convention "The Baptist Peace Fellowship of North America co-sponsored a 'peaceful alternative' to a National Rifle Association national convention that attracted an estimated 70,000 visitors to Charlotte, N.C., May 14-16."

Hospital nun rebuked for allowing abortion in Phoenix "Sister Margaret McBride was on an ethics committee that included doctors that consulted with a young woman who was 11 weeks pregnant late last year,