Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is appealing after being convicted in March of failing to report a predator priest to police.
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Sabbath buses barrel through Israel’s religious-secular rift
Tel Aviv launches a public transit system operating on Saturdays and redrawing the lines in the Jewish state’s culture wars between religious and secular citizens.
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Vatican returns relic from Jesus’ manger to Holy Land
The tiny wooden relic was returned nearly 1,400 years after the structure it came from it was sent to Rome as a gift to Pope Theodore I.
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Utah banning conversion therapy with Mormon church backing
The success in getting the church’s crucial support for the regulatory rule generates praise from LGBTQ advocates.
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Two priests guilty of sexually abusing deaf children at Argentine school
Pope Francis has not commented on the case that has shaken the church in his homeland.
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Energy Secretary Rick Perry says Trump is God’s ‘chosen one’
It’s a common view among some evangelical Christians, and the president has described himself in seemingly messianic terms.
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Black Georgia lawmakers to push for state hate crimes law
The move comes after a white 16-year-old girl was accused of plotting to attack black churchgoers.
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China pressuring priest at center of agreement with Vatican
Monsignor Vincenzo Guo Xijin is being ‘hounded by public security agents’ to join the official Communist Party-controlled church organization. a Vatican-affiliated news agency says.
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Pope Francis tries to transform the church through his travels
From the beginning of his papacy, he has made it clear that he wanted to push power within the church away from the Holy See.
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How Kanye West put Joel Osteen’s prosperity gospel under a spotlight
West’s album ‘Jesus is King’ has earned praise among conservative Christians, but his comments have raised eyebrows over their association with Osteen’s controversial prosperity gospel teachings.