The leading U.S. Catholic bishop said nuns are “to blame” for the passage of the health care bill in March. Bishops in New York are disappointed that the state is poised to allow no-fault divorces (the other 49 already do). Pope Benedict XVI met with the head of the Legionaries of Christ, the conservative order scarred by revelations that its founder sexually abused seminarians and fathered a child.

The Chabad center in Mumbai, which was been without a rabbi since it was attacked in 2008, has found a new couple to take charge.

Southern Baptists meeting in Orlando passed resolutions decrying the demise of Don’t Ask/Don’t Tell and expressing dismay over the BP oil spill. Religious leaders in California are praying for the legislature to pass a budget. Lawyers in the state’s Prop 8 case wrapped up their arguments on Wednesday. Some experts say execution by firing squad is more humane than other methods.

An anti-abortion protester has the right to demonstrate on a sidewalk near the Liberty Bell, a federal appeals court ruled. The European Court of Human Rights said that Turkey should return a former Greek orphanage back to Orthodox Christians. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel staged demonstrations against a Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls’ school. The Archbishop of Canterbury told Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori not to wear her bishop’s mitre when she preached in England.

The Episcopal Church’s executive council will meet tomorrow with the General Secretary of the Anglican Communion, the gentleman who told them earlier this month that they have been disinvited from doctrinal and ecumenical discussions. That should be fun.

A professional fundraiser has been accused of stealing $360,000 from a girls school run by nuns. One of the white men who burned down a black church after President Obama’s election pleaded guilty to civil rights charges and will spend 9 years in prison. The English Football Association told soccer star Wayne Rooney not to talk about his Catholic faith. A Uganda Muslim couple has been sent to jail on charges of desecration for having sex in a church.