Hart reached high with 'B.C.'

The cartoonist never shied away from religion in his popular comic strip. A new collection shows the same applied to controversy, too.

Advocates for clergy abuse victims protest at Onamia seminary reunion

A group of advocates for victims of sexual abuse by clergy is holding a protest outside a weekend reunion at a former seminary of the Catholic order of Crosiers in Onamia.

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Pope presses Obama on abortion, stem cells

Pope Benedict XVI stressed the church's opposition to abortion and stem cell research in his first meeting with President Barack Obama on Friday, pressing the Vatican's case with the U.S. leader who is already under fire on those issues from some conservative Catholics and bishops back home.

Irish Catholics flock to tree stump they say looks like Mary

Thousands of Irish Catholics have flocked this week to a County Limerick church to pray at the stump of a recently cut willow that many observers say, has the silhouette of the Virgin Mary.

Vatican runs deficit amid economic crisis

The Vatican said Saturday it ran a deficit in 2008 as its finances and donations from across the world were hit by the global economic crisis.

A crash course in rending red tape

You might remember Joanna O'Meara, a native of England who came to Minneapolis to become a nun but was forced to leave the country before she was done with her training.

Photo right: ister Joanna O’Meara

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