TEMPERANCE, Mich. (AP) — The Michigan Court of Appeals says a priest who criticized a teenager’s suicide during his funeral is protected by the religion clauses of the First Amendment. The court ...

When loved ones gathered for the funeral of Maison Hullibarger, they were supposed to hear uplifting messages and fond memories of the teen. Instead, a priest told hundreds of mourners that suicide is ...

DETROIT, Mich. — A priest of the Archdiocese of Detroit is facing a lawsuit filed by the parents of a teenager who committed suicide last year. The parents say Father Don LaCuesta homily at their ...

A Michigan mother sued the Archdiocese of Detroit, alleging that the priest who spoke at her son’s funeral questioned whether he would go to heaven after dying by suicide, adding to the family’s ...

Faithful who attended the funeral for Father Kenneth Walker were dismayed at the presence of picketers from the Westboro Baptist Church on June 20 near Paxico, Kansas. As mourners filed into Sacred ...

A Russian priest interrupted the funeral service of a dead Ukrainian soldier last week, beating another priest from the Orthodox Church of Ukraine with a cross because of his comments about Russian ...

Funeral arrangements for the Rev. Stephen Rooney, 66, pastor of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Trenton, are set for Wednesday at St. Frances Cabrini Catholic Church in Allen Park. A visitation will ...

A Catholic priest in Northern Ireland has called last week’s funeral Mass for Irish musician Shane MacGowan a scandal. “It was an abuse of what the Mass is and what the Catholic funeral liturgy is all ...

A Michigan priest who preyed on a 5-year-old boy after a family funeral in 1987 pleaded guilty this week to sexual assault, the state’s attorney general confirmed. Vincent DeLorenzo, 84, who served ...

Underground Catholics in China's Shanghai Diocese are upset about their inability to use the city's largest funeral parlor after their priests were barred from officiating prayers in the facility.

TEMPERANCE, Michigan — A priest who criticized a teenager’s suicide during his funeral is protected by the religion clauses of the First Amendment, the Michigan Court of Appeals said. The court ...