Religion

He calls himself a simple Buddhist monk, yet he fills the Rogers Centre with as many people as the Blue Jays. Chuckling and telling stories like a grandfather around the dinner table, the 14th Dalai […] […]

A retired 88-year-old Roman Catholic priest who was charged with molesting a student at St. Michael’s College School almost 60 years ago is now facing three more abuse charges. Rev. William Hodgson Marshall surrendered to […] […]

AMSTERDAM—The lawyer for Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders says the lawmaker has a right to freedom of speech and should be acquitted of all hate speech charges. Lawyer Bram Moszkowicz compared Wilders in closing arguments […] […]

OSNABRUECK, Germany — Ahmed Sami spoke only Arabic when he moved from Morocco to Germany eight years ago to work as an imam. During his Friday prayer services at a mosque in western Germany, he […] […]

DHARAMSALA, INDIA—Little-known fact: His Holiness is a meat-eater. A few hours before a scheduled audience with the Dalai Lama in this mist-cloaked Himalayan city of backpackers and Buddhist pilgrims, a member of his staff scheduled […] […]

ROME They’re in St. Peter’s Square and at the Spanish Steps, sipping cappuccino in cafes and riding the trams, chatting on cell phones and texting deftly. Sometimes in swishing cassocks or cowl habits, more often […] […]

PENOLA, Australia—Mary MacKillop’s path to sainthood included an unlikely hurdle: excommunication. As a young nun, MacKillop—who will be canonized as Australia’s first saint Sunday at the Vatican—was briefly dismissed from the Roman Catholic Church in […] […]

VATICAN CITY—Bishops summoned to the Vatican to discuss the flight of Christians from the Middle East have blamed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for spurring much of the exodus and warned that the consequences could be devastating […] […]

MONTREAL: At birth, Brother André was so weak and sickly that his parents had the newborn baptized immediately, fearing he wouldn’t survive till morning. He lived to the venerable age of 91. His heart, which […] […]