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Associated Press VATICAN CITY – The Vatican on Thursday sought to calm Jewish anger over the pope’s meeting with a prominent Polish priest accused of anti-Semitism, declaring the encounter did not imply any change in the church’s desire for good relations with Jews. The Vatican issued the assurances after Pope Benedict XVI’s brief meeting Sunday…

Associated Press BAGHDAD – Hundreds of thousands of Shiites marched to a gold-domed mosque in harsh heat and sun Thursday in a pilgrimage of devotion to an 8th century saint that also starkly demonstrated their political power. Only scattered strikes by Sunni insurgents marred the day, which was held amid tight security to avoid the…

Associated Press Davenport, Iowa – August 7- Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani said Tuesday that whether he was a practicing Catholic was a personal matter as he declined to answer questions about his religion. Addressing a town-hall meeting in Iowa, the former New York mayor was asked whether he considered himself a “traditional, practicing Roman…

Associated Press St. Louis – August 8, 2007 – A federal appeals court has refused to consider whether Missouri’s lethal injection method of capital punishment is constitutional, leaving it unclear whether executions will resume in the state. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday denied a request by condemned inmate Michael Taylor to…

Associated Press Moscow- August 8 – A Russian Orthodox Church spokesman said Wednesday that the country’s schools should teach religious principles and moral values, and he accused some leading scientists of trying to impose the “ideology of science” on the education system. Father Vsevolod Chaplin was responding to a group of prominent scientists who recently…

RNS By Les Zaitz Portland, Ore. (RNS) The traces of Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation Inc., the Islamic charity shut nearly three years for ties to terrorism, are disappearing. The camel, once a feature in local parades, died. The prayer house on the outskirts of town was auctioned. The stockpile of religious books now sitting in a…

RNS By Valerie Faciane New Orleans — It’s been nearly two years since the statue of St. Gabriel last stood at the main entrance of St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Church. Six feet of water poured into the church after Hurricane Katrina, toppling the statue and ruining the walls, pews, altar, piano and organ, in…

RNS By Diana Keough Chicago — Otis Moss III is striking in a raw way. Broad-faced, boyish and slender, the 36-year-old preacher looks more like a man who is consumed with fashion than the fate of sinners. But when he steps into the large pulpit of Trinity United Church of Christ — the South Side…

RNS By Jim Harger and Lindsay Vanhulle Grand Rapids, Mich. (RNS) Mayor George Heartwell’s campaign postcard to Catholic voters has upset some local members of that faith. The face of the postcard shows St. Mary’s Catholic Church steeple and the Basilica of St. Adalbert. The back is signed by prominent local Catholics, including the Rev.…

RNS By Francis X. Rocca Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger, a Jewish convert whose mother died in the Auschwitz concentration camp before he rose to become the Roman Catholic archbishop of Paris, died Sunday (August 6) at the age of 80. The cause of death was an undisclosed illness for which he had been hospitalized since April.…
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