Pope Benedict XVI became the first pontiff in history to tweet on Tuesday. He said: “B16 is here to rule, yo! BTW, I love kittens. LOL!.”
Kidding! He really wrote: “Dear Friends, I just launched News.va Praised be our Lord Jesus Christ! With my prayers and blessings, Benedictus XVI”
The Vatican Twitter acount has 40,000 followers, but doesn’t follow one person. Fellas, where’s the love?
Speaking of love, some Catholic activists say Archbishop Timothy Dolan gave a half-hearted effort to stop gay marriage in NY.
Might not have mattered, though. Seventy percent of New Yawkers said opposition to same-sex nuptials by religious leaders does not affect their views on the issue.
An elaborate hoax claimed that the Southern Baptist Convention was on the verge of supporting gay marriage and changing its stance on homosexuality.
As two Mormons compete for the GOP presidential nomination, the LDS Church sent a letter to all church officers reminding them to remain neutral in partisan politics.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has lost its tax-exempt status, according to the Tennessean, because it failed to properly file forms with the IRS.
The FBI enlisted the virulently anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church to help train agents “to stay measured when they are speaking with a witness or a suspect with whom they have a strong, visceral disagreement.”
An Oregon woman says says her son was shot last Friday by a co-worker who had been teased because he believed in Harold Camping’s May 21 Rapture prediction.
Christian missionaries should renounce all “deception and coercive means” of winning converts, agreed a broad coalition of evangelicals, the World Council of Churches and the Vatican.
Dutch lawmakers approved an animal-rights law that bans Jewish and Muslim methods of ritual slaughter.
International Jewish groups have called on the Vatican to sanction a prominent Polish priest who they say uses his media empire to foment anti-Semitism.
Iran’s minister of culture and Islamic guidance said his country will take “serious action” because the BBC is running a three-part series on Prophet Muhammad, even though no one in Iran has seen it.
Buddhists in Britain staged a meditating flash mob in Trafalgar Square. Maybe the most peaceful mob in history?
New York Yankees great Mariano Rivera is making yet another save. This time it’s a century-old church in N.Y.
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Daniel Burke