The church in StratforduponAvon where William Shakespeare was baptised and buried is hoping to stave off closure by gathering at least 25 million to carry out extensive repairs
Neale Donald Walsch, best-selling author of Conversations with God, said Tuesday that he unwittingly passed off another writer's Christmas anecdote as his own in a recent blog post.
An American Catholic theologian censured by the Vatican for "grave doctrinal errors" has been told to cease teaching about the nature and identity of Jesus Christ.
Police on Tuesday cleared out two New Orleans Catholic churches occupied by former parishioners opposed to the archdiocese's decision to close them, breaking down a door at one.
Eleven Old Order Amish families sued a northern New York community Tuesday, claiming that its refusal to grant permits for their traditionally built homes is religious discrimination.
A new web site, Catholic Google, promises to filter the listings in a search to highlight links in keeping with Church teachings. But it doesn't screen the advertising so successfully.
A federal judge in Brooklyn has rejected a Liberian woman's argument that she had religious reasons for smuggling endangered monkey meat into the United States.
Pope Benedict XVI chose Bishop of Oakland Allen Vigneron to replace Cardinal Adam Maida as Detroit's archbishop. Vigneron is a Michigan native and former auxiliary bishop in Detroit.
Pope Benedict XVI has named Bishop Allen H. Vigneron, currently bishop of Oakland, Calif., as metropolitan archbishop of Detroit. Associated Press reports today.
