by Francis Rocca | Apr 27, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Jesse was just 10 days old in November 2009 when he was diagnosed with Herpes simplex, a virus often lethal to a newborn child. Doctors at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. told his parents that he had no better than a 50...
by Francis Rocca | Apr 27, 2011 | News
VATICAN CITY (RNS) A small quantity of blood from the late Pope John Paul II will be exposed as a holy relic during his beatification on Sunday (May 1), the Vatican has announced. The blood was taken during a medical test shortly before John Paul’s death in April...
by Peggy McGlone | Apr 27, 2011 | News
NEWARK, N.J. (RNS) Former New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey—who famously announced he was “a gay American” when he resigned in 2004—will not be ordained into the Episcopal Church priesthood in the near future. McGreevey has completed a master of divinity degree and...
by Brian Kaylor | Apr 27, 2011 | News
On Sunday, evangelist Franklin Graham argued that President Barack Obama may not have been born in the United States, even though numerous independent fact-checkers have debunked that claim as erroneous. The White House quickly condemned Graham’s attack. Graham,...
by Trevor Grundy | Apr 26, 2011 | News
CANTERBURY, England (RNS) When Prince William and Kate Middleton walk down the aisle at Westminster Abbey on Friday (April 29), Britain’s unique and historic ties between church and state will be on full display. Some here think—even hope—it could also be the last...
by Ginger Gibson and Chris Megerian | Apr 26, 2011 | News
TRENTON, N.J. (RNS) The New Jersey Transit employee fired for burning pages of the Quran at the site of a proposed Islamic center near Ground Zero will get his job back. Derek Fenton, who sparked a national firestorm during his protest on the ninth anniversary of the...
