It’s not every day that a priest gives a ringing endorsement of a Chicago Police officer once charged with forcing a gun down the throat of a suspect. But on Thursday, Glenn Evans got a vote of confidence from the Rev. Matthew O’Donnell, pastor of St. Columbanus Catholic Church, one of half a dozen community activists from some of the city’s most crime-plagued neighborhoods who showed up at the …
A New Haven women who fell over a chair during a crowded funeral service has won a $1 million lawsuit against the East End church. A six-member Superior Court jury deliberated about two hours before finding the English Chapel Cathedral of Miracles negligently caused the injuries suffered by Glenora King and ordered the Wilmot Avenue church to pay her $51,000 in economic damages and …
The Navajo Nation wants a lawsuit against the Mormon Church over the alleged sexual abuse of four Navajo children heard in tribal court. The Salt Lake Tribune reports that the tribe’s attorneys filed a motion Friday asking a federal judge in Salt Lake City to dismiss the suit until after it goes through tribal proceedings. According to the motion, the attorneys argue that …
There’s more trouble for the Catholic church. A Stockton pool man claims he was fired after a priest sent him sexually explicit text messages. He has now filed a civil lawsuit and wants the priest removed.
An atheist activist on Tuesday reached a court-approved settlement to drop a lawsuit against a Corpus Christi, Texas, church planning to erect a 230-foot-tall cross. Patrick Greene said in the settlement his legal complaint against Pastor Rick Milby of Abundant Life Fellowship Church was “baseless,” “vexatious” and “without merit.” “We are grateful that Mr. Greene has admitted that his lawsuit …
It looks like opposing faith in the public square just got a little harder in the Lone Star State. The city of Corpus Christi, Texas, is the home of actress Eva Longoria, the Whataburger fast food chain, and is once again on track to be the future home of the tallest cross in the Americas, thanks to a lawsuit settlement reached on Tuesday, after the plaintiff in the case conceded that the …
Former members of First Baptist Church of Hammond argue in a federal lawsuit that the church is responsible for an investment fraud run by a deacon hired by the church to provide financial advice. The former parishioners – Joseph and Crystal Elwell, formerly of Schererville, and Deborah and Robert Baldwin, formerly of Crown Point – say in the lawsuit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court …