Religion Stories

LONDON (Reuters) – The Church of England paved the way on Thursday for a final vote on women bishops to go ahead in July, but supporters angry at last-minute concessions to traditionalists who favour an all-male clergy immediately threatened to … Continue reading →

The Vatican Bank ousted its president on Thursday after he failed to clean up the image of an institution that has come to symbolise the opacity and scandal gripping the Holy See‘s administration. Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was forced to resign … Continue reading →

VATICAN CITY (AP) — The president of the Vatican bank has effectively been ousted after receiving a unanimous vote of no-confidence from bank overseers for having leaked documents and failed to do his job at a critical time in the … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON – Canada‘s foreign affairs minister was the keynote speaker Thursday at an event in the U.S. capital honouring religious freedom, forcefully defending his government’s strong support of Israel while promoting its plans for an Office of Religious Freedom. “We … Continue reading →

ROME (Reuters) – The leader of the Legionaries of Christ admitted on Tuesday he knew for years the scandal-plagued Roman Catholic order’s most famous priest had fathered a child but still allowed the popular cleric to preach about morality. The … Continue reading →

Manny Pacquiao‘s devotion to religion and comments against gay marriage will not have an impact as a training distraction or in the ring as the Filipino icon prepares to fight unbeaten American Tim Bradley. That was the message from “Pac-Man” … Continue reading →

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Hamel Hartford Brookins, a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church for 30 years and a longtime civil rights activist, has died in Los Angeles. He was 86. A church statement says Brookins died Tuesday at … Continue reading →

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Perhaps the only thing longer than the title of a Vatican document issued in English on Wednesday was the time it took for an official translation of the Latin to appear – 34 years. The document, … Continue reading →

(Reuters) – The University of Notre Dame and dozens of other Catholic institutions sued President Barack Obama‘s administration on Monday to block a government regulation that requires employers to provide health insurance coverage for contraceptives to employees. The regulation, which … Continue reading →

In a coordinated pushback against the Obama administration, 43 Catholic institutions filed a dozen lawsuits in federal courts across the country on Monday, charging that new federal rules requiring most religious employers to provide health insurance that includes birth-control services … Continue reading →