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A retired Anglican priest has been convicted of 36 separate sex offenses against children in the 1960s and 1970s.A jury found Gordon Rideout guilty Monday of 34 counts of indecent assault and two counts of attempted rape on 16 children in the southeastern English counties of Hampshire and Sussex between 1962 and 1973. The victims included boys and girls.Most of the charges that the 74-year-old Rideout was convicted of related to his work as an assistant curate at St. Mary's Church in Crawley, when he would visit a children's home nearby. Prosecutor Philip Bennetts said Rideout would visit children when they were sick and alone in bed.Rideout was arrested in March 2012 and charged five months later following a police investigation. He denied all the charges....
The Vatican said Saturday that married Anglican priests will be admitted to the Catholic priesthood on a case-by-case basis as Rome facilitates conversions by Anglic...
Three former Anglican bishops were ordained as Catholic priests Saturday, becoming the first ex-bishops to take advantage of a new Vatican system designed to make it...
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Benedict XVI will break his own rule this weekend when he beatifies Cardinal John Henry Newman, the renowned 19th Century Anglican convert w...
The head of the global Anglican Communion is urging both sides of the fractured church to exercise restraint after the election of an openly lesbian bishop in the Un...
The head of the global Anglican Communion is urging both sides of the fractured church to exercise restraint after the election of an openly lesbian bishop in the Un...
A commission seeking to resolve the Anglican Communion's crisis over a homosexual U.S. bishop and other gay issues wrapped up its work Friday and said it would publi...
Pope Francis is calling for renewal in the Catholic church as he wrapped up two days of mass gatherings in St. Peter's Square aimed at energizing the faithful.About ...
On that Sunday in 1968 when Troy Perry borrowed a minister's robe and started a church for gays in his living room, the world was a very different place.Perry's Metr...
With its ranks deeply divided, the Boy Scouts of America is asking its local leaders from across the country to decide whether its contentious membership policy shou...
The rise of the Latino Protestants, the Evangelicos as they are called, is particularly a challenge for the Roman Catholic Church , as it struggles globally to get those who've given up on the faith, back to the fold.
In our deeply partisan politics of today there is one area where it is hard to find the truth spoken by either Republicans or Democrats. It is the idea that Muslim p...
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has admitted he didn't do enough to prevent sharp divisions within the Anglican church over homosexuality.Williams, who is st...
The head of the Church of England is leaving office after a decade as the spiritual leader of the world's 80 million-strong Anglican Communion.Rowan Williams, the 10...
When Ed Buckner and his family went to a north Georgia state park to celebrate his son's birthday, he was surprised and concerned to find Bibles in the state-owned c...
Residents of Moore, Okla., started to return to their homes a day after a tornado smashed some neighborhoods into jagged wood scraps and gnarled pieces of metal. In ...
The principal's voice came on over the intercom at Plaza Towers Elementary School: A severe storm was approaching and students were to go to the cafeteria and wait f...
As rescuers scour the rubble of tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., desperately searching for trapped survivors, recent history shows there is reason for hope.Word that th...
Tourists are crowding onto a Bronx bus tour that promises "a ride through a real New York City 'GHETTO' " — and local politicians are furious.Three times a week, Rea...
LONDON (AP) — The Anglican Communion has suspended U.S. Episcopalians from serving on ecumenical bodies because of the election of a lesbian as a bishop in Californi...