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News Brief: Trump CNN Tweet Is Criticized, Latest Vatican Shake-Up

8:42am July 03, 2017

It seems President Trump's frustration with his party and the news media is growing. At the Vatican over the weekend, the cardinal who headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith was ousted.

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Cardinal To Defend Himself Against Sexual Abuse Charges In Australia

6:25am July 03, 2017

A close aide to Pope Francis has been charged with sexually abusing children. Steve Inskeep talks to Thomas Doyle, a former Catholic priest and now a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter.

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In Fighting Abuse By Members Of Catholic Church Clergy, Victim Sees Resistance To Change

8:08am July 02, 2017

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro discusses the Catholic Church's response to its sexual abuse scandal with Marie Collins, who recently resigned from the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors.

Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2014.

Pope Francis Replaces Conservative Top Theologian

10:47pm July 01, 2017

by Maquita Peters

Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Mueller was ousted as the head of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on Saturday. Days earlier another top official left to face charges of sexual abuse.

Many upper caste Hindus consider the cow holy and have long rallied to ban beef eating. Critics of the government see the new animal cruelty rules as an effort to cater to these demands.

New Rules Against Animal Cruelty Raise The Stake For India's Beef Wars

3:21pm June 30, 2017

by Sandip Roy

The rules ban cattle sale for slaughter at livestock markets and come at a time of escalating tensions between Hindu extremists and beef-eating minorities. They could also hurt India's beef exports.

Police in the Australian state of Victoria have announced sexual abuse charges against Cardinal George Pell, the pope's finance chief. At the Vatican on Thursday, Pell said he would return to Australia to fight the charges.

Vatican Cardinal Charged With 'Historic Sexual Offenses' In Australia

5:18pm June 29, 2017

by Laurel Wamsley

Police in the state of Victoria announced charges against Cardinal George Pell, who was a priest there in the 1970s. Now the pope's finance chief, Pell said he looks forward to clearing his name.

Australian Police Charge Catholic Cardinal George Pell With Sexual Assault

4:31pm June 29, 2017

by Sylvia Poggioli

Australian police charged Cardinal George Pell with multiple "historical" sex crimes. Pell is a top adviser to Pope Francis and in charge of Vatican finances. Pell claims he is innocent and is taking a leave of absence to defend himself.

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Muslims Mark End Of Ramadan In Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Feeling Targeted By The Travel Ban

3:52pm June 29, 2017

President Trump's travel ban will get its day in Supreme Court in the fall.

A plethora of religious iconography fill the National Museum of American History's new exhibit, Religion in Early America. From left to right, an 18th century Torah scroll, a 17th century Catholic cross and a children's Noah's Ark playset from 1828 sit on

To Understand How Religion Shapes America, Look To Its Early Days

1:57pm June 29, 2017

by Tom Gjelten

From Thomas Jefferson's cut-up Bible to the country's first printed hymnal, the Smithsonian's Religion in Early America exhibit wants to engage Americans with the role of religion in its first days.

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Cardinal George Pell: Sexual Abuse Charges Against Me Are False

8:09am June 29, 2017

Cardinal Pell, a key adviser to Pope Francis, has been ordered to appear in a Melbourne court next month. Steve Inskeep talks to John Allen, editor of Crux, which focuses on the Catholic Church.

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