The end of free Bibles in hotel rooms?
"This is not a joke," reports
Three Squirrels in a Pressure Cooker: "Pope sues to prevent spreading the Good Word."
A Milanese publishing house printed 30 lines from a recent Pope Benedict speech in one of its books -- and was billed some £10,000. "For the first time all papal documents, including encyclicals, will be governed by copyright invested in the official Vatican publishing house, the Libreria Editrice Vaticana.... The edict is retroactive, covering not only the writings of the present pontiff -- as pope and as cardinal -- but also those of his predecessors over the past 50 years." There a concern over "pirated editions" and "premature publication."