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Vatican orders former Dominican Republic archbishop to stand trial on child abuse charges
By Rosie Scammell — June 15, 2015
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Wesolowski, who had the title archbishop during his five-year post in Santo Domingo, the Dominican Republic capital, was recalled to the Vatican in 2013. He was later the first person to be arrested inside the Vatican on child abuse charges.
Auschwitz bookkeeper admits ‘moral guilt’ at Holocaust trial
By Reuters — April 21, 2015
LUENEBURG, Germany (Reuters) Groening was 21, and by his own admission an enthusiastic Nazi, when he was sent to work at Auschwitz in 1942. Unlike many other SS men, he has spoken openly in interviews.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s message: ‘We Muslims are one body, you hurt one you hurt us all’
By Reuters — March 11, 2015
Federal prosecutors contend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who emigrated from Chechnya, was driven by an extremist view of Islam and a desire to strike back at the United States in revenge for military campaigns in Muslim-dominated countries.
Boston bombing jury excludes some Catholics
By G. Jeffrey MacDonald — January 26, 2015
BOSTON (RNS) Potential jurors in bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's trial must be able to impose the death penalty. That standard eliminates most Catholics who heed their church's catechism.
Jesus may have been tried here: Archaeologists uncover Herod’s palace
By Michele Chabin — January 5, 2015
JERUSALEM (RNS) Discovered under an abandoned prison building that is part of the Tower of David Museum grounds, the trial site is one piece of a vast excavation undertaken by archaeologists from 1999 to 2000 but sealed off for the past 14 years.
DC synagogue fires rabbi in ‘Peeping Tom’ case
By Lauren Markoe — December 2, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) The synagogue that Rabbi Barry Freundel led for nearly 25 years has fired him over charges of voyeurism.
Jim Wallis on Ferguson: Repentance has not happened there yet
By Lilly Fowler — October 10, 2014
(RNS) "I’ll say this as clearly as I can: What’s very clear is that black lives are worthless in America and the criminal justice system. It’s time to right that unacceptable wrong."
Kate Kelly, Mormon women’s group founder, excommunicated from church
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — June 23, 2014
SALT LAKE CITY (RNS) A panel of judges has moved to excommunicate Kate Kelly, a founder of the group Ordain Women, on charges of apostasy.
United Methodist bishop may face trial for presiding at gay wedding
By Renée K. Gadoua — March 13, 2014
(RNS) Retired Bishop Melvin G. Talbert is the highest clergyperson to have broken the church’s official laws and the only bishop known to have officiated at a same-sex wedding ceremony.
Spared a church trial in one region, Methodists may find censure in another
By Renée K. Gadoua — March 10, 2014
(RNS) The resolution of the Rev. Thomas Ogletree’s case highlights an emerging dynamic that allows some pastors to skirt rules banning clergy from performing same-sex wedding, while others risk costly church trials and the loss of clergy credentials.
‘Soldiers of Allah’ found guilty in murder of British soldier
By Trevor Grundy — December 19, 2013
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Two men describing themselves as "soldiers of Allah" were found guilty Thursday of murdering a British soldier in broad daylight in a South East London street earlier this year.
Pa. pastor Frank Schaefer won’t quit voluntarily
By Renée K. Gadoua — December 16, 2013
(RNS) The Rev. Frank Schaefer said Monday he would refuse to surrender his clergy credentials voluntarily and continue to perform gay marriages in opposition to his denomination’s orders.
COMMENTARY: Concealed handguns a form of white social control
By Mark I. Pinsky — July 15, 2013
(RNS) Part of the problem lies with with the lunatic -- and, I would argue, racist -- manner in which the Florida legislature has defined self-defense. You can start a fight for any reason, and if you begin to lose the altercation, and feel you are about to suffer grave body harm, you can kill the other person with totally immunity.
Amish beard-cutting trial attracts international attention
By James F. McCarty / The Plain Dealer — August 27, 2012
CLEVELAND (RNS) The law of God will collide with the law of man this week in a crowded federal courtroom in Cleveland, where 16 Amish defendants -- 10 men with full beards, six women in white bonnets -- will stand trial on charges related to a series of beard- and hair-cutting attacks against fellow Amish men and women last year. By James F. McCarty.
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