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VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — The Roman Catholic Church has effectively buried the concept of limbo, the place where centuries of tradition and teaching held that babies who die without baptism went.In a long-awaited document, the Church’s International T...

MIAMI (AP) — Twenty young women who want to become nuns will arrive this fall at the Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist in Michigan — so many candidates that there aren’t enough beds.Helped by aggressive marketing and a new generation...

DAYTONA BEACH, Florida (AP) — No hymnals. No pews. No steeple. No stained glass windows. And no women.The Church For Men flips around the look and feel of worship and its leader says that’s a good thing — guys are “bored stiff” in many churches today...

PORTLAND, Oregon (Reuters) — The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Portland formally emerged from bankruptcy yesterday with a $75 million settlement plan after 2-[1/2] years of court wrangling over how to pay victims of alleged sex abuse by priests.The a...

With all of this commotion over the “gay cruise” that is scheduled to visit the island this summer, as well as the religious protests that this cruise has evoked, I thought that it would be fitting to take a closer look at the views of the contending...

Eighteen months ago, I wrote a column stating that “A remarkable textbook, ‘The Bible and Its Influence’, just published, will re-introduce the teaching of the Bible in public schools in America.” TIME magazine came to the same conclusion in its Marc...

Mt. Zion AME Church will be hosting the annual Christian Faith Quiz this week, featuring six teams from throughout the AME denomination in Bermuda. In its fourth year, the annual quiz competition was the brain child of Tony Roberts. “Mr. Roberts brou...

Two years into his reign, Pope Benedict XVI is finally poised to make a major mark on American Catholicism with a string of key bishop appointments and important decisions about the future of US seminaries and bishops’ involvement in politics.Benedic...

HAVANA (Reuters) — The Roman Catholic magazine Vitral, one of the few publications in Cuba not controlled by the government, said last week it was closing down due to lack of resources.The fortnightly magazine published by the Catholic Diocese of the...

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) — Pope Benedict, starting four days of hectic activity leading up to Easter, said on Thursday priests should recognise the faults in their own lives and seek purity from God.The Pope made his comments at a "Mass of the Chrism" ...