Pontiff's first stumble: Pope Francis takes a tumble in mass for cardinals...
The 76-year-old stumbled while stepping down from the altar to greet the cardinals at Mass in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace. It looked
View ArticleWhy does the devil in hit TV show 'The Bible' look exactly like President Obama?
Sunday evening's episode of the History Channel's hit series 'The Bible' threw up an awkward coincidence when viewers noticed that Satan bore a remarkable resemblance
View ArticlePope Francis washes feet of young detainees in ritual
Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of a dozen inmates at a juvenile detention center in a Holy Thursday ritual that he celebrated for
View ArticleFilipino devotees reenact crucifixion of Christ
Devotees in villages in the northern Philippines took part in a bloody annual ritual to mark Good Friday, a celebration that mixes Roman Catholic devotion
View ArticleMormon conference: A woman leads prayer for first time in 183 years.
For the first time in the event's 183-year history, a woman led a prayer Saturday at the semiannual gathering of The Church of Jesus Christ
View ArticleThe original hipster Jesus ads
That's the new message from the Catholic diocese of, yup, Brooklyn. It's a well-documented phenomenon that younger Americans are abandoning organized religion in droves, and that
View ArticleAre atheists more generous than Christians? This homeless man’s experiment...
Some religions may say change comes from within, but this homeless man has come up with an ingenious way of determining which faith produces the
View ArticleDid the Pope perform excorcism on disabled man?
THE question has been swirling ever since Francis laid his hands on Sunday on the head of a young man after celebrating Mass in St.
View ArticleThe Christian movement that tells husbands to SPANK their wives 'to correct...
A growing number of married American couples are agreeing to allow husbands to keep their wives 'in line' by taking to corporal punishment. The trend is
View ArticlePat Robertson wistfully longs for Facebook 'Vomit' button for gay pics
Sorry, Pat Robertson, don't think Facebook's going to be adding a "Vomit" button anytime soon. However, we'd like to suggest a "Facepalm" button that we
View ArticlePope Francis: Who am I to judge gays?
POPE Francis has reached out to gays, saying he wouldn't judge priests for their sexual orientation in a remarkably open and wide-ranging news conference as
View ArticlePat Robertson's advice on dealing with haunted house: 'Burn it down'
When your house is haunted, you could contact "Ghost Hunters" or "Ghost Adventures," but those absurd reality shows won't give you any kind of sound,
View ArticleCross of Jesus found?: Archaeologists in Turkey discover 'a piece of a cross'...
ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Turkey have found a fragment of a cross, which they claim is associated with Jesus's crucifixion. The archaeologists were excavating at the 1350-year-old
View ArticlePope breaks with protocol by bowing to Queen Rania of Jordan
As head of state at the Vatican, not to mention the leader of the world's 1.2 billion catholics, protocol requires visitors to bow to him
View ArticlePope's puzzled 'selfie' taken with teens visiting the Vatican goes viral
POPE Francis has broken protocol once again, appearing with a puzzled look on his face in a "selfie" photo taken with a group of teenagers
View ArticleDaughter: Televangelist Robert H. Schuller has cancer
Crystal Cathedral founder and former televangelist the Rev. Robert H. Schuller has been diagnosed with cancer, his daughter said Thursday. Carol Schuller Milner told The Associated
View ArticlePope: Non-believers can go to heaven
POPE Francis has said in a letter to a left-wing daily newspaper that atheists would be forgiven by God if they followed their consciences. "God's
View Article'Bling bishop' called to explain himself to pope
A big-spending German Catholic bishop was called before Pope Francis on Monday, as speculation grows over whether he will be forced to resign for his
View ArticlePope parties with homeless on birthday
FOUR homeless people, one of them bringing his dog, have helped Pope Francis celebrate his 77th birthday at the Vatican. They live on the street
View ArticlePastor gives 60-second service so he can watch NFL game
Having to work when there’s a big game on TV is most sports fans’ idea of hell. Pastor Tim Christensen faced that nightmare scenario on Sunday
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