Happy Wednesday: Richard Mourdock, the GOP Senate candidate in Indiana, says babies conceived out of rape are “something that God intended to happen.”
B16 has named six new cardinals — far short of the dozens usually named — including American James Harvey, who oversees the papal household. Our own Alessandro Speciale tells us that Harvey was ultimately responsible for the pope's butler, who leaked private papal documents to the press. Harvey will assume leadership of historic St. Paul's Outside the Walls in Rome, which isn't too bad for a demotion.
Notably, there were no Italians or Europeans in the mix. Harvey will bring the number of U.S. cardinals to 19, including 11 who are under 80 and thus eligible to vote in the next conclave to elect a new pope.
Doing what she does best, Joanna Brooks asks whether the “Mormon Mafia” would try to revive torture, er, “enhanced interrogation techniques,” in a Romney White House.
The tiny Amish compound at the center of those bizarre beard-cutting attacks is clinging to faith and each other in the face of an uncertain future.
A Hindu/Muslim family in NYC finds itself at the center of an unexpected community dispute over their decision to cremate their 22-year-old son's body.
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The Obama campaign has been notably mute this year on religious outreach — maybe that's because secularists and “nones” are the backbone of his (ir)religious coalition.
New York's highest court has rejected a bid from conservatives to overturn the state's gay marriage law, and a lesbian couple has filed a complaint against a Christian-owned farm that refused to host their same-sex wedding.
In case you were wondering, porn stars do believe in God, and not just because they use his name a lot on the job, according to porn legend Ron Jeremy.
Remember the Mormon blogger who was facing possible excommunication for writing about temple secrets? He's now just a blogger.
A one-time “coach of the year” at a Catholic boys school in Houston was arrested on charges of having thousands of inappropriate images of children on his computer.
The famed French shrine at Lourdes is back open after flash floods caused $2.6 million in damage.
Alberta's highest court ruled that a pastor's letter to the editor against homosexuality did not constitute hate speech.
— Kevin Eckstrom
