So maybe it really does work after all: The missing relic of St. Anthony (the patron saint of lost items) that was stolen from a church in Long Beach, Calif., has been found.
Catholic bishops wrap up their meeting in Seattle today after voting yesterday to approve their sex abuse policies without any major or substantive change.
Southern Baptists said they can’t support the gender-neutral language in the updated New International Version of the Bible. Black churches are hoping to lift the stigma around prostate cancer.
Two Muslim men were arraigned on charges of trying to blow up Gotham’s largest synagogue, but not on more serious terrorism and hate crime charges.
U.S. Catholic leaders expect up to 2,000 lay people and 100 priests to leave the Episcopal Church and become Catholics under the pope’s new church-within-a-church structure for disaffected Anglicans.
The Mississippi Supreme Court has suspended a judge for 30 days for a variety of missteps, including making a drug offender attend church as a condition of bail. Next door in Alabama, the new immigration law is the nation’s “meanest,” a respected United Methodist bishops says.
Terry “Anyone Got a Match?” Jones is headed to Dearborn, Mich., today for a massive Arab-American festival, but has promised not to burn a Quran and to play nice with the locals.
Time’s Amy Sullivan scratches below the surface on VP Joe Biden’s hush-hush meeting with B16. Maybe they played the new Facebook game that pits liberal Catholics vs. conservative Catholics (and no, I’m not making that part up).
A years-long property battle between the Anglican Church of Canada and conservative dissidents in Vancouver appears to be over, with the ACC winning the day.
Jews and Muslims in the Netherlands appealed for an exemption to new slaughter rules that say animals must be stunned before they are killed; both groups say the practice is neither kosher nor halal.
And the self-proclaimed heirs to the Knights Templar have asked the Vatican to apologize for burning their leader at the stake in 1314. I’m sure B16 will get right on that one.
Someone please cue the weekend.
