Lots of chatter over the weekend about the indictment of Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, but no one seems to have moved the story forward significantly since Friday’s reports.
Angling to ride the KC case’s coattails, a notoriously litigious DC attorney (his license plate reads “SUE BAST”) is accusing Cardinal Donald Wuerl of discriminating illegally against Muslims and women at DC’s Catholic University.
The same lawyer is suing Catholic U over its new, single-sex dorms.
The NYT has a long feature focusing on Mitt Romney’s years as an LDS stake president, when he “operated as clergyman, organization man and defender of the faith.”
The Pittsburgh Post Gazette has a nice feature explaining the theological differences between Mormonism and mainstream Christianity.
Catholic watchdog Bill Donohue declared “case closed” on Rick Perry’s ties to a pastor who thinks every religion except his own is a dangerous cult – after the governor told him that he does not believe, as the pastor does, that Catholicism is a “fake religion.”
Herman Cain says he’ll go toe-to-toe with Rick Perry for the GOP primary’s critical evangelical voters.
President Obama led a faith-filled ceremony to unveil the Martin Luther King Jr. monument on the National Mall.
Ten years after tiny St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church was destroyed in the 9/11 attacks, church leaders reached an agreement to rebuild at Ground Zero.
The Islamic community center in Lower Manhattan has become ensnared in a rent dispute that threatens the plan, one of the developers says in a lawsuit.
A Tibet activist group says a former Buddhist monk has set himself on fire to protest Chinese rule in the region, the eighth Tibetan protester to immolate himself this year.
Pope Benedict XVI announced that the Catholic Church will mark the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council by observing a Year of Faith. All eyes were fixed Sunday on the wheeled platform he used to navigate the long aisle of St. Peter’s Basilica.
Black-clad demonstrators gathered in front of Mars Hill’s new church in Portland to protest its stance on homosexuality.
The Catholic Church in Ireland has developed an iPhone app to encourage more vocations to the priesthood.
Harold Camping says this is the way the world will end on October 21: Not with a bang but a whimper.
Reuters has some amazing photos of large Buddhist statues in Thailand sitting peacefully as floodwaters rise.
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Daniel Burke