Thousands Mark Easter Sunday in Jerusalem (AP)

AP - Thousands of Christians from around the world gathered at Jerusalem holy sites to celebrate Easter Sunday, marking the day with prayer and hymns.

Rescuers Overpower Man on Vatican Dome (AP)

AP - A man believed to have a history of psychiatric problems climbed over a railing and onto the side of the soaring dome of St. Peter's Basilica on Saturday, perching there for several hours before firefighters overpowered him and pulled him to safety.

Easter Bunny Gets Pummeled by Boy at Mall (AP)

AP - The Easter Bunny is hopping mad. Bryan Johnson, who portrays the furry character at the Bay City Mall, says he was pummeled in an unprovoked attack on the job. Police say the attacker was a 12-year-old boy who sat on Johnson's lap the day before the March 18 incident.

'Passion' Re-Enactment Slows Traffic On I-10 (WDSU TheNewOrleansChannel.com v...

The annual Good Friday re-enactment of Christ's Passion tied up traffic on Interstate 10.

Thousands Of People Gather In Diyarbakir To Protest The Attempt To Burn Turki...

DIYARBAKIR - Thousands of people gathered in a public meeting held in southeastern Diyarbakir province on Friday to protest the attempt to burn the Turkish flag at Nevruz celebrations in Mersin.

Special Easter Mass approved

Archbishop Sean P. O'Malley has agreed to allow priests to say Easter Mass at two closed parishes, St. Anshelm in Sudbury and St. Albert Weymouth, where worshipers have been staging round-the-clock occupations of the church buildings for more than six months.

Limbo chock-full of zygotes

While researching the Catholic Church's <a href=http://www.religioustolerance.org/limbo.htm target=_blank>official stance</a> on the existence of Limbo I discovered that it is likely crammed to the gills with the souls of the unborn, who according to the church...

Pope Calls Gay Marriage Part of 'Ideology of Evil' (Reuters)

Reuters - Homosexual marriages are part of "a new ideology of evil" that is insidiously threatening society, Pope John Paul says in a new book published Tuesday.

Ex-church to condo heaven?

On a rainy Wednesday night earlier this month, Felicita Oyola, 80, who's been confined to her bed for the past few weeks with a bad hip, decided that nothing could stop her from speaking her mind. Her concern: the fate of the buildings and land that until last August were...

Rooftop 'Basilica Bar' Opens at St. Peter's

Reuters reports that the roof of Christendom's largest church is now a watering hole.  The bar just opened.  Just in time for the holidays.  Cin Cin!