The British tabs are reporting that Madonna has ditched Kabbalah and is now flirting with … wait for it! … Opus Dei. Salon is reporting “anticipatory outrage” over Lady Gaga’s “Judas” video where she plays Mary Magdalene.

And you can add the Kate Middleton jellybean to all those Jesus and Virgin Mary grilled cheeses.

A jury in Springfield, Mass., found a white man guilty of torching a black church the night of President Obama‘s election. Says the accused, Michael Jacques: “They got it all wrong. I am not a racist.”

The Forward checks in with the three Jewish students at BYU, where Passover seders are invoked with prayers “in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Those crazy kids up at the LaSalle University student paper were told to bury the story about the professor who brought strippers to class below the fold, so they did. Thing was, the only thing printed above the fold were four little words: “See Below the Fold.”

School administrators in Florence, S.C., begrudingly agreed to tell employees they can’t send religious text messages to other employees.

CNN’s Dan Gilgoff (who knows a thing or two about this) says reports of the death of the Christian right are premature. A federal appeals court gave the official OK to the National Day of Prayer on May 5.

Nearly 18 years after the deadly siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, CNN finds some believers still think David Koresh was God. Virginia’s attorney general said people can carry guns into church if they want, but religious groups — not the government — also have the right to prohibit them.

The Mormon church’s top spokesman says he’s not willing to pay $200 to see “The Book of Mormon” because of the show’s offensive treatment of Africans.

Ireland’s top Catholic archbishop probably won’t be invited to Dan Burke‘s house for St. Paddy’s next year after dissing Irish Americans: “I have no feeling for Irish-Americanism. I don’t understand it … American sentimentalism for a country they don’t know, it’s not my dish.”

A county commissioner in Florida and a victim of clergy sexual abuse says JP2 does not deserve beatification (or sainthood) because of his “dastardly behavior in not addressing the clergy sexual abuse issue.”

A Belgian bishop who admitted sexually abusing his nephew now says he abused another nephew, but doesn’t see what all the fuss is about. “”I had the strong impression that my nephew didn’t mind at all. To the contrary,” Roger Vangheluwe said. “It was not brutal sex.” More cringe-inducing details here.

In Israel, they’re worried that the unemployed Hasidic Jews who consider Torah study a full-time job are becoming a drag on the economy. American seminarians in Rome, meanwhile, are reviving the tradition of visiting a different “station church” during the 40 days of Lent.

And finally, a stale story gets new life with a really great headline from Time: “Heat-Seeking Missal? Fight on Liturgy Divides Catholics”