FORT PIERCE, Fla. -- A 42-year-old woman without insurance and with mounting medical bills plans to sell an MRI scan of her brain in which the image of the Virgin Mary seems to appear.
On Tuesday, I wrote about the documentary film "10 Questions for the Dalai Lama" and what I'd ask if I ever had the chance -- as the filmmaker did -- to spend 45 minutes alone with the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhists.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Voters' economic status and religious convictions played a greater role than race and age in determining whether they supported the Nov. 4 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage in California, a new poll shows.
NEW YORK---- Theological conservatives upset by liberal views of U.S. Episcopalians and Canadian Anglicans formed a rival North American province Wednesday, in a long-developing rift over the Bible that erupted when Episcopalians consecrated the first openly gay bishop.
Cathleen Falsani: A couple of nights ago, I was channel-surfing, trying to find something mindless to watch after a difficult day. Something like "Liar Liar" or "Uncle Buck." But there was nothing on -- 500 channels and nada. Or so I thought.
LEXINGTON, Ky. -- A lawmaker says the state's Homeland Security office should be crediting God with keeping the state safe.
There's nothing quite like a stomach bug that arrives the night before Thanksgiving -- with the birds brining peacefully in the fridge -- to sink me into a chasm of self-pity.
It probably wasn't the last Thursday in November, and there was no pumpkin pie.
KATMANDU, Nepal -- A Nepalese teenager revered by many as a reincarnation of Buddha has returned to the jungle to meditate after emerging for less than two weeks, officials said Saturday.
Shortly after sunrise one Tuesday last month, tragedy visited my backyard. A yelp and a crash broke the early-morning silence and led my husband to discover our upstairs neighbor unconscious in the garden.
'Wanna own your own slave?" Jason asked over coffee in his California kitchen one morning last week.
Churches in the nation's capital have started extending invitations to President-elect Barack Obama and his family, touting their African-American roots, their ties to presidents past and to Obama himself.
Like many in this troubled economy, Shirley Forte has wallet issues. But atypically, she wants to get them into more hands. And Salem Baptist Church is working to help her -- as well as other entrepreneurs pushing products and services at a black business expo on Saturday.
Before Grammy-winning songwriter/music director Donald Lawrence even announced the runner-up, the Rev. Bernard Sutton turned to his wife and others sitting with them in the arena seats and shouted, “We won!” Then he tore off down the steps toward the stage.
BALTIMORE -- The nation's Roman Catholic bishops vowed Tuesday to forcefully confront the Obama administration over its support for abortion rights, saying the church and religious freedom could be under attack in the new presidential administration.
"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."
Cardinal Francis George told a gathering of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops on Monday that continued support for abortion rights will undermine any advances in social justice that come from a new president and Congress.
Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan told his congregation Sunday he saw a "oneness of spirit" among the multitudes who rallied and celebrated Barack Obama's presidential victory at Grant Park and around the nation -- a victory, he contends, God directed.
The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests sent a letter to Cardinal Francis George on Sunday asking for his resignation as president of America's bishops for allegedly ignoring years of sexual abuse within the church and allowing a convicted sex offender to work for Chicago's archdiocese.
RALEIGH, N.C. — Pastor Shirley Caesar-Williams opened her sermon Sunday at Mount Calvary Word of Faith Church with a prayer of thanks for the election of Barack Obama — at the risk of her flock getting ‘‘more excited over this than you do over the word.’’
The Episcopal Church's Diocese of Quincy, Ill., on Saturday became the third theologically conservative diocese to broken away from the liberal denomination in a long-running dispute over the Bible, gay relationships and other issues.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- It's 11 a.m. Saturday, and whiskey is flowing at the big houses on fraternity row at the University of Alabama. Guys in ties and baseball caps are laughing and dancing with sorority girls in bright dresses as a band blares away just around the corner.
