The Pontifical Council for Social Communications, the Vatican’s media arm, requested the top-level domain .catholic. It was part of the nearly 2,000 new generic top-level domains the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers released on Wednesday.

Churches need modern domain names too

Several organizations have applied for gTLD's that have, or may have, a religious connection
or connotation.

These faith-related domain names (along with the applicants) are:
.BIBLE (American Bible Society)
.CATHOLIC (Pontifical Council for Social
Communication)
.CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network)
.CHRISTMAS (Uniregistry Corp.)
.CHURCH (Life Covenant Church and Holly
Fields)
.FAITH (dot Faith Limited)
.HALAL (Asia Green IT System Bilgisayar
San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti.)
.ISLAM (Asia Green IT System Bilgisayar
San. ve Tic. Ltd. Sti.)
.ISMAILI (Aga Khan Foundation) .
KOSHER (Kosher Marketing Assets LLC)
.MORMON (IRI Domain Management, LLC)
.YOGA (Victor Falls, LLC; Top Level Domain
Holdings Limited; Uniregistry, Corp.)

Source: http://religionclause..com/2012/06/icann-releases-new-gtld-appliations.html