Today is Friday, Sept. 3, the 246th day of 2010. There are 119 days left in the year.

More than three quarters of Britons think the taxpayer should not contribute to the cost of Pope Benedict XVI's forthcoming visit to Scotland and England, according to a survey.

Christine Judd An instructor at a Massachusetts Catholic School has lost her job following her wedding to her female life partner.

Worshippers believed to be trapped inside a blazing Hare Krishna temple after an explosion have all been accounted for, the fire and rescue service said.

Bishop Blase Cupich will be installed as the sixth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Spokane Friday, leading an office that has been financially battered by the priest sex abuse scandal.

Contact between 33 Chilean miners trapped for weeks underground and the outside world took an irreverent twist on Thursday, as the men passed dirty jokes to the surface -- and the Pope sent down blessed rosaries.