German citizens will greet Pope Benedict XVI's visit this week with angry demands to reform the Roman Catholic Church. Their wish list includes loosening celibacy rules for priests, introducing gay rights, and changing the name of the religion to Unitarianism. They are also calling for a strengthening of women's roles within the church hierarchy but are not pushing this agenda too hard, as they are afraid of getting yelled at and having their hands smacked.
And in the U.S., alternative rock band R.E.M. is breaking up after thirty-one years. Over the decades, the band endured a tumultuous career of complete and utter bombs on the charts, deafening concerts that ended in fatal tramplings and security-force beatings, and an unprecedented number of drug-induced band-member-suicides.
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