Wire Religion

Pope Francis said Friday that the Catholic Church should "act decisively" against cases of sexual abuse, continuing in the vein of his predecessor Benedict XVI, the Vatican said.

A husband and wife from central Pennsylvania filed suit in Bucks County Court on Wednesday, claiming that the woman was abused by a priest from the Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa in Doylestown, and that the Philadelphia Archdiocese, the shrine, and its priests, the Pauline Fathers, allowed the priest to flee to Poland after she reported the incident.

Two Rowan County lawmakers drew nationwide attention Wednesday for pushing a resolution that says North Carolina and its counties and towns have the right to establish an official religion.

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LOS ANGELES - The U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched an investigation into the Doheny Glatt Kosher meat market in Los Angeles as controversy brews over the integrity of products sold there.

A suspended Catholic priest from Bridgeport, Conn., pleaded guilty Tuesday to participating in a bi-coastal methamphetamine distribution ring.

With a hand-held radio and gold-colored badge attached to his navy blue shirt, a security officer keeps watch over Sunday worshippers at Grace Church in Eden Prairie.

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Scott Hofert's career is a marriage of automated and manual, spiritual and tangible - a veritable workshop of internal growth and external product.

LONDON � In the first Easter message of his pontificate, Pope Francis appealed to Christians and others Sunday to turn "war into peace" in parts of the world caught in seemingly intractable conflict.

For five decades, Doheny Glatt Kosher meat market has been one of California's pre-eminent suppliers of food that meets the requirements of Jewish law, offering staples such as brisket and chicken as well as bison, prime steak and grass-fed beef.

The search for God is a staple of human history. The Bible and the history of Christianity are filled with stories of people who have powerful experiences of a divine presence in their lives and how their lives are transformed. But how this happens is a mystery.

For five decades, Doheny Glatt Kosher meat market has been one of California's pre-eminent suppliers of food that meets the requirements of Jewish law, offering staples such as brisket and chicken as well as bison, prime steak and grass-fed beef.

VOICES OF FAITH: HOW WOULD YOU RESPOND TO BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, WHO SAID, "THE WAY TO SEE BY FAITH IS TO SHUT THE EYE OF REASON"?

It's been 50 years since Madalyn Murray O'Hair founded American Atheists in Austin and went on to become the public face of atheism with her trademark defiant, in-your-face style.

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - Mercedes Alvarez is among the many here who will never believe that Jorge Mario Bergoglio, the Argentine chosen to be pope, did anything unsavory during the dark days of this country's "dirty war."

In the year since then-Pope Benedict XVI visited Cuba with a message of "reconciliation," change has come to Cuba but even greater change has come to the Roman Catholic Church.