TUCSON, Ariz. -- Police entered a Tucson Catholic church during Mass and arrested an armed teenager after he allegedly robbed a nearby Macy's Department Store a few moments before. Police found the 17-year-old boy sitting in a pew Sunday at St. Joseph's Catholic Church and he was arrested without incident, police Sgt. Fabian Pacheco said Monday.

Carnaval traditionally begins 50 days before Easter. But Brazil's tourist industry wants to move the festival to a fixed day in March every year, to the horror of Catholics and partygoers. The thinking: An early Carnaval means vacationers won't have recovered financially from Christmas and New Year's.

A secret document which sets out a procedure for dealing with child sex abuse scandals within the Catholic Church is examined by Panorama. Crimen Sollicitationis was enforced for 20 years by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger before he became the Pope. It instructs bishops on how to deal with allegations of child abuse against priests and has been seen ..

Among major incentives to get involved is the negative environmental impact of discarded plastic bottles, the oil required to make them, and the limited access to safe drinking water in developing countries -- a problem even before big corporations got involved. Church groups may talk not just about the numbers of bottles choking landfills.

One of the problems with reading church history before the Reformation is that the word "heretic" was widely used for anyone who disagreed with the Roman Catholic hierarchy. Here are some striking and disturbing examples.

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