PM Brief

1pm ET....

Brundage "clarifies"... again.

DiNardo "strongly defends" B16.

And a hotline set up by the German church to report abuse allegations crushed under the weight of a reported 4,400 first-day callers.

6pm ET....

Making a hat trick of the scandals' reemergence, "La Dowd" returns.

And an editorial cartoon depicting the pontiff as deaf to calls to action has prompted Archbishop John Vlazny of Portland to cancel his subscription to the local Oregonian.

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