Vatican Legion reform in doubt with revelations
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Pope Benedict XVI's ability to reform the troubled Legion of Christ has again been thrown into doubt following revelations that a half-dozen priests are under Vatican investigation for allegedly molesting children and that the order's leadership knew its most prominent priest had fathered a child yet did nothing to prevent him from teaching and preaching about morality....
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Franciscan University in Ohio drops student health insurance over contraception coverage...
Presbyterian churches ignore SF minister's censure
SAN ANSELMO, Calif. (AP) -- Representatives of dozens of West Coast Presbyterian churches are defying their denomination's highest court by refusing to censure a retired minister who married same-sex couples in 2008....
Vatican mystery intensifies, bones found in grave
ROME (AP) -- Forensic police swarmed the crypt of a Roman basilica on Monday to exhume the body of a reputed mobster as part of an investigation into one of the Vatican's most enduring mysteries: the 1983 disappearance of the teenage daughter of one of its employees....
Punk band arrest at heart of Russia church feud
MOSCOW (AP) -- The skinny dissident is thrown headfirst into a police van by camouflage-clad officers. Nearby, a dozen bearded men bearing Russian Orthodox crosses and wearing skull-and-crossbones T-shirts cheer on the cops....
Ruling favors Jehovah's Witnesses in Puerto Rico
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) -- A U.S. court has ordered that all gated communities in Puerto Rico find a way to grant access to Jehovah's Witnesses so they can proselytize....
Pope enjoys concert conducted by Muti at Vatican
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Maestro Riccardo Muti conducted a concert of selections of sacred music by Vivaldi and Verdi at the Vatican for an appreciative Pope Benedict XVI Friday in a celebration of the seventh anniversary of the pontiff's election to the papacy....
Girl Scouts under scrutiny from Catholic bishops
NEW YORK (AP) -- Long a lightning rod for conservative criticism, the Girl Scouts of the USA are now facing their highest-level challenge yet: An official inquiry by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops....
Irish church tries to rebuild after sex abuse
VATICAN CITY (AP) -- The archbishop of Dublin, a leading voice for reform following Ireland's devastating Catholic church sex abuse scandal, said Thursday that the Irish church is trying to rebuild even as he demands the full truth be told about the past....
Excruciating details emerge on Jewish ghettos
NEW YORK (AP) -- Even after decades of in-depth Holocaust research, excruciating details are only now emerging about more than 1,100 German-run ghettos in Eastern Europe where the Nazis murdered hundreds of thousands of Jews....
