He had been convicted of sexually abusing two choir boys in Melbourne, Australia, two decades ago. He is 77 and will be eligible for parole in three years and eight months.
An anti-Muslim poster outside the West Virginia House of Delegates chamber falsely connecting a Minnesota congresswoman to the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks has drawn strong rebukes from local and national lawmakers.
The American Humanist Association is challenging the existence of a 40-foot cross on government-owned land, but the Trump administration hopes a newly conservative majority will agree to let it stand.
Delegates of the United Methodist Church, America's second-largest Protestant denomination, Tuesday rejected a move to ease the faith's ban on same-sex marriage and ordination of LGBT clergy.
The most senior Catholic cleric ever charged with child sex abuse has been convicted of molesting two choirboys moments after celebrating Mass, dealing a new blow to the Catholic hierarchy's credibility after a year of global revelations of abuse and cover-up.
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