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By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
CAIRO — The Mass was celebrated as if from centuries past: A bearded priest veiled in incense chanted for grace in a church along...
By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
BEAUMONT, Texas — Two years ago on Super Bowl Sunday, Pentecostal preacher James McAbee was getting into his car after services when...
By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times
LAS VEGAS — On a warm Sunday afternoon, the Rev. Douglas Kanai wore a serene expression as Buddhist followers surrounded him outside...
By Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times
Pressed to come up with hundreds of millions of dollars to settle clergy sex abuse lawsuits, Cardinal Roger M. Mahony turned to one group of...
By Victoria Kim, Ashley Powers and Harriet Ryan, Los Angeles Times
Fifteen years before the clergy sex abuse scandal came to light, Archbishop Roger M. Mahony and a top advisor plotted to conceal child...
By Harriet Ryan and Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times
Church leaders who mishandled child sex abuse allegations will be named in a 30,000-page cache of internal Archdiocese of Los Angeles...
By Rebecca Trounson, Los Angeles Times
Bishop Kuang-hsun Ting, who was one of the most influential Christian figures in China as the longtime leader of the country's government-...
By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times
By Matea Gold and Tom Hamburger, Washington Bureau
Silicon Valley, the politically liberal technology hub, is an unlikely incubator of conservative Christian activism.
By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times
David Martinez, pastor of Victory Outreach Church of the San Fernando Valley, whose...
By Dennis McLellan
James Kavanaugh, a former Catholic priest who came to fame in 1967 with his controversial bestseller calling for reform in the church and...
By Mike Anton
Father Ladislas K. Parker, a Catholic priest whose harrowing escape from communist Hungary in 1950 led him to Orange County and the founding...
By William Lobdell
Oral Roberts, a dirt-poor Oklahoma farm boy who popularized the idea of a "prosperity gospel" while becoming one of the world's most...
By John M. Glionna
The young couple are totally busted. They huddle at a beach-side park, near signs forbidding teens from sitting too close. He has his arm...
By Elaine Woo
John Harris Burt, a retired bishop who advanced a ...
By Duke Helfand
G. Patrick Ziemann, the former Roman Catholic bishop of Santa Rosa who resigned in 1999 amid sexual and financial scandals, has died. He was...
Elizabeth Clare Prophet, retired spiritual leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, which was based for several years in a Calabasas...
By Jack Miles
The Evolution of God
Today's topic: What's the central focus of Salazar vs. Buono -- who has standing to sue over violations of the 1st Amendment's...
By Elaine Woo
John T. Elson, whose 1966 cover story for Time magazine -- provocatively titled "Is God Dead?" -- produced record-breaking newsstand sales...