U.S. Supreme Court Judge Sotomayor, who hears emergency appeals from the 10th Circuit, said it was not "indisputably clear" that Hobby Lobby and Mardel deserved an injunction.

Thousands of Dutch Catholics are researching how they can leave the church in protest at its opposition to gay marriage. The site is getting more than 10,000 visits a day.

The leader of the Church of England on Tuesday said a vote last month that struck down proposals to allow women to become bishops had been “deeply painful.”

Former President George H.W. Bush is in intensive care at a Houston hospital in "guarded condition," after being admitted on Nov. 23 for bronchitis.