Lots of interesting obits and encomia over the weekend for Chuck Colson, the Watergate felon turned evangelical advocate for prisoners.
A church-state watchdog filed a formal complaint with the IRS alleging that the Catholic Diocese of Peoria violated rules barring tax exempt organizations from opposing political candidates when Bishop Daniel Jenky compared President Obama to Hitler and Stalin.
University of Notre Dame faculty have drawn up a petition asking for Jenky to resign from the university's Board of Fellows if he is unwilling to publicly and “loudly” renounce “this destructive analogy.”
Some Liberty University students and alumni are protesting plans to have Mitt Romney deliver the commencement address next month. “Liberty University should have gotten a Christian to speak not someone who practices a cult,” said one student.
Rep. Paul Ryan is using the Catholic principle of subsidiarity to defend the deep cuts in the GOP House budget.
American nuns are still struggling to respond to the Vatican crackdown, but seem to have many a newspaper editor on their side.
Two more Tibetans set themselves on fire, according to Tibet advocacy groups. Since March 2011, at least 34 people in Tibetan areas of China have set themselves on fire to protest Chinese rule, the NYT reports.
Patriarch Kirill I called for the Russian Orthodox Church to defend itself against, um, a girl group?
As Holocaust survivors age, historians are racing to collect their stories. President Obama is speaking at the Holocaust Museum in D.C. today.
The age-old practice of arranged Hindu marriages is getting a 21st-century makeover.
A new book former Blondie bassist Gary Lachman attempts to uncover the Swedish scientist, philosopher and theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
Russell Crowe will play Noah in a new movie about the biblical ark-maker.
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Daniel Burke
