Suspended Episcopal Bishop Charles E. Bennison Jr. will get his last chance to make a case for reinstatement as head of the Diocese of Pennsylvania when he goes before a church appeals court in May.
Modified: 03/19/10 08:12:21 AMA funny thing happened to punk band Bad Religion on the way to what its members fully expected to be a James Dean existence: They fully embraced the "live fast" part of that manifesto, but somehow forgot to die young.
Modified: 03/19/10 02:02:21 AMWhen GlaxoSmithKline bought Todd Stiefel's family business for $2.9 billion last April, he began to think about what to do with the rest of his life.
Modified: 03/19/10 09:12:34 AMThe head of the Catholic Church in Ireland apologized Wednesday for failing to tell police 35 years ago about an abusive priest who went on to molest more children before being convicted and imprisoned.
Modified: 03/18/10 01:57:29 AMBoston College has received a $20 million gift from the co-founder of a Massachusetts supermarket chain and his wife to help train teachers for Roman Catholic schools and universities.
Modified: 03/17/10 11:07:44 AMMary Beth Erickson's husband was not in court during their divorce proceedings in 1990. There was no testimony. She didn't get to give her side of the story.
Modified: 03/17/10 04:07:30 PMVoices of faith: Should I intervene if a friend is way off base in her beliefs?
Modified: 03/17/10 10:37:44 PMA man who has posed as a Franciscan friar and who once was convicted of molesting a teen during a church trip was arraigned Tuesday on charges he fondled another teenage boy on multiple occasions during the past two years.
Modified: 03/16/10 10:23:59 PMBenedict XVI, the first pope with his own YouTube channel and presence on Facebook, is urging Roman Catholic clergy to use social media to communicate with parishioners and reach those outside the church.
Modified: 03/14/10 08:07:04 AM
Andrew Park was comfortable in his nonbelief and had no ready response to his son's unassuming talk of God. But he also knew he couldn't dismiss or otherwise denigrate faith.
Modified: 03/11/10 08:34:05 AM
As he speaks to hundreds of Iowa evangelicals about his "faith walk," it's clear former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum is connecting with the audience.
Modified: 03/10/10 02:33:15 PM
The reading assignment this past week was massive: The end of the Book of Daniel, the books of the 12 minor prophets and most of the Gospel of Matthew.
Modified: 03/18/10 11:52:00 AMThe Episcopal Church gave final approval Wednesday to the ordination of an openly gay bishop in Los Angeles, putting a face behind a policy that has divided the church and caused some of its more conservative members to break away.
Modified: 03/18/10 01:57:29 AM
When American Rabbi Joshua Spinner moved to Berlin's trendy Prenzlauer Berg neighborhood a decade ago, there were no other Jews to be seen.
Modified: 03/17/10 05:07:28 PMThe Rev. Mary E. Haddad found it bizarre one recent Sunday to be telling the congregation at All Saints' Church in Beverly Hills to not bother showing up the morning of March 21.
Modified: 03/18/10 01:57:29 AMAs Mahnaz Shabbir thought about a coming flight, she grew worried about the full-body scanners used at some airports.
Modified: 03/17/10 10:37:44 PMA Wake County teacher remains suspended with pay more than a month after she was removed from the classroom over Facebook comments made about her students, Christianity and the South.
Modified: 03/17/10 07:02:07 AMSaad Mohammad Ali had volunteered for six months at World Relief, helping the agency resettle arriving Iraqi refugees, when a manager suggested he apply for an Arabic-speaking case worker job.
Modified: 03/17/10 08:07:54 AM
T-shirts and hoodies declare "Terrorism has no religion." A head-covering tunic bears the message: "Hijab. My right. My choice. My life."
Modified: 03/11/10 12:10:34 AMA campaign to give elderly Netherlands residents the right to assisted suicide has gathered more than 100,000 signatures, enough to force a parliamentary debate on the matter.
Modified: 03/10/10 02:33:15 PM
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