Not a whole lot of religion at Day Two of the Supreme Court's health care oral arguments.

But Associate Justice Kagan alluded to religion when she noted that the plaintiffs do not represent a group of people, such as Christian Scientists, who would refuse on principle to enter the health insurance market. Nearly everyone else, Kagan said, will use health care at some point. If the individual mandate stands, you might see this scenario come before the courts.  

Pope Benedict XVI concludes his visit to Cuba today with a public mass in Havana and a meeting with Fidel Castro. Yesterday, Benedict reportedly asked Cuban President Raul Castro to make Good Friday a national holiday. When Pope John Paul II visited Cuba in 1998, Fidel Castro reinstated Christmas as a national holiday, Reuters reports. 

The Vatican cancelled a Pontifical Academy for Life conference following criticism that it included supporters of embryonic stem-cell research.

A proposed “covenant” aimed at ensuring unity across the worldwide Anglican Communion appears to have failed, leaving the world's third-largest Christian body facing an uncertain future.

Philadelphia prosecutors aired dozens of confidential church documents in court Tuesday, the AP reports, trying to establish that the Philadelphia archdiocese buried complaints that priests were molesting children.

A Missouri county judge said that he would rule by the end of next week on whether to dismiss charges against Bishop Robert Finn.

A federal judge dismissed the most serious charges against the Christian militant Hutaree group. 

The FBI is assisting in the investigation of a woman’s death in California who may have been the victim of an anti-Muslim hate crime.

Republicans in Congress appointed two new members of the Commission on International Religious Freedom. Muslims say one of them is a “puppet” for foes of Islam. (The other is Robbie George of Princeton.) Neither seems to have any foreign policy experience. 

Calling Clarence Darrow: The Tennessee legislature passed a bill that some scientists call a Trojan horse for teaching creationism in public schools. 

A new report says church giving is rebounding, after “the worst season of our lives.”

Kuwaiti authorities arrested a man for insulting the Prophet Mohammad via Twitter, and Spike Lee tweeted the address of an elderly couple while trying to out George Zimmerman. 

The latest Gallup Poll finds Mississippi is the most religious state, with Vermont and New Hampshire ranking as the least.

The Old Grey Lady swooned over Tim Tebow, calling him a “careful evangelical” and a “preacher in a football player's body.” 

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Daniel Burke