MAIDEN, N.C. -- Catawba County, N.C., officials have backed down after initially denying a request from marchers who want to use county facilities this weekend to stage a protest against a preacher's anti-gay sermon.

Organizers of the protest had...

LOS ANGELES -- Thousands of pages of previously confidential records related to Franciscan clergymen accused of child sexual abuse have been posted online, three years after a Los Angeles judge ordered the documents released.

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Unless you want a fight to break out at a cocktail party or a family reunion, conventional wisdom has it, don't talk religion or politics.

I did both in this space recently, and then I crawled in a bunker and waited for the fireworks to begin.

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NO LAUNDRY LISTS

Lama Chuck Stanford, Rime Center & Monastery, Kansas City, Mo.: Buddhism is a non theistic religion, therefore prayers are not directed to a supreme being. Yet, all of us have wishes or aspirations that are often manifested ...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- A North Carolina pastor's sermon in which he called for gays and lesbians to be placed in a form of concentration camp has spurred a protest planned at the church this Sunday.

A group calling itself Catawba Valley Citizens ...

Sister Simone Campbell doesn't wear a habit.

A nun for more than 40 years and an attorney for 35, the executive director of a Roman Catholic social justice lobby called Network doesn't feel she should wear one.

Her voice mail refers to her ...