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Mourning for Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the dozens of other victims of Saturday’s plane crash has brought together Poland’s Catholics and Jews, groups that haven’t shared the happiest history. In fact, Jewish leaders have called Kaczynski a “friend to Israel,” and today’s March of the Living at Auschwitz, which takes place every Yom Hashoah (the…

Was it something we said? Both Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak each announced today that they are retiring. From a religion news perspective, the SCOTUS departure is important because with Stevens departing this summer, the court may no longer have any Protestants unless President Obama decides to appoint one,…

Introducing “Fun Friday,” my take on the most entertaining religion news of the past week. Hands down, as I came down off my Greek Easter food coma to a week of more clergy sex abuse news and the West Virginia coal mine disaster, what made me smile was the debut of the Rev. Barbie, an Episcopal priest. Episcopal Cafe…

A top Vatican official says the ongoing clergy sexual abuse scandal has caused Pope Benedict great pain, the Associated Press reports. (With all the allegations reported lately, spanning from Mexico to India and including the pontiff’s own brother in Germany, I would be far more surprised to learn that he felt great. But, not every news story…

For years, Catholic Church leaders at the Vatican and around the world considered clergy sex abuse an “American problem.” Well, the past year has shown that pedophile priests and the cover-ups that protected them have been a European scourge as well — and now an African archbishop is making headlines by confirming that it’s not even only a…

Rescue efforts have resumed for the four trapped men that may still be alive deep beneath the earth, four days after the West Virginia coal mine disaster. The blast killed 25 miners; 18 of their bodies have yet to be recovered. From the Associated Press: “Officials and townsfolk alike acknowledged they didn’t expect to find any of…

The Masters Golf Tournament 2010 starts today, and all eyes are on Tiger Woods, who is ending a self-imposed five-month exhile after his extremely public fall from grace. In a press conference this week, Woods reiterated that he has recommitted himself to Buddhism, his family’s faith, in hopes of returning to his core values (which presumably do…

The Rev. Joseph Palanivel Jeyapaul, who allegedly molested two teenage girls while serving in a Minnesota parish a few years ago, will return from India to face sexual assault charges. Apparently, he wasn’t aware that the U.S., with the Vatican’s cooperation, had been trying to extradite him, until The New York Times came calling recently.…

From 9 a.m. today and for the next 24 hours, Jewish Funds for Justice is sending one “Tweet” a minute to Glenn Beck’s personal Twitter account. The “Haik U” messages (like haiku poems) are protesting the conservative broadcaster’s comments about religion and social justice. On Faith has more on this campaign. Two samples: And Jesus said toAll his…

On the heels of his family’s visit to an African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church on Easter Sunday, President Obama met with a group of black church leaders before convening a larger gathering of clergy and community activists for an Easter prayer breakfast at the White House yesterday. Religion News Service reports that about 90 Christians attended the…
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