Maryland
ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Maryland is considering becoming one of the few states to allow condemned inmates to choose a clergy member not employed by the state to be in the execution chamber when they die.
BALTIMORE - Three cult members face sentencing in Baltimore for the death of a toddler starved for not saying "Amen" after meals.
LONG BEACH, Calif. - The Episcopal Church has ordained its second openly gay bishop.
ROME - The Vatican is pushing for research of adult stem cells as an alternative to the use of embryonic stem cells, which the Catholic Church opposes because it maintains that the destruction of the embryo amounts to the killing of human life.
