By ANN RODGERS, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

At the Catholic bishops' annual meeting here, hallways have buzzed with talk about Penn State University's child sex abuse scandal.

Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, president of the bishops conference, said he hopes that Penn State and other institutions learn from both the bishops' failings and their reforms.

When the pastor of a Dallas megachurch called the Mormon faith a "cult" and a "false religion" at a recent political rally in reference to the faith of two Republican presidential candidates, he sparked a media firestorm.

U.S. Catholic bishops voted Thursday to approve minor changes to their child protection charter amid several new scandals over bishops who have failed to follow it, after a key advisory committee warned that without more clear, direct responses, they risked undoing their progress on the issue.

Standing in a field of cherry-red maize and ripening pumpkins, John Moreira spotted a large insect flying amid the cornstalks.

A Christian organization that seeks to end world hunger has developed an interfaith study guide for the G-20 summit.

"The G-20 Pittsburgh Summit: Reflections for People of Faith" can be downloaded from www.bread.org, the Web site of Bread for the World. The organization will lobby G-20 leaders to make decisions that bring benefits of the global economy to the world's poorest people.

"Religulous" has the theological depth of a religion documentary by a seventh-grade church dropout, which is exactly what filmmaker Bill Maher is.

Two collisions that crushed horse-drawn buggies and critically injured two Amish men in Pennsylvania this month have renewed attention to the mismatch between fast, heavy metal motor vehicles and slow, lightweight wooden buggies.

PITTSBURGH -- Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts-Schori of the Episcopal Church has warned Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh that he is in danger of being removed from office if he does not abandon his efforts to realign the diocese with an Anglican province outside the United States.