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In Thomas Merton, conference panelists see a model for racial justice and healing
Interfaith activists call solitary confinement immoral, ineffective
Vatican decision to recognize Palestine upsets Israeli government, Jewish advocacy groups
Once Pope Francis knows US capitalism, he will love it, says Catholic theologian-economist
Christians lose ground, 'nones' soar in new portrait of US religion
How moms set children's spiritual compass and why it matters
American priest translates 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' into Latin
Liberation theology's founder basks in a belated rehabilitation under Pope Francis
Vatican newspaper blasts Muhammad cartoons as pouring 'gasoline on the fire'
Deal imports American bottom-line accounting to Italy's Catholic churches
What Catholics can teach America about polarized politics
Q&A: From Ferguson to Baltimore, black America's faith is tested
Amid Nepal's shattered shrines and temples, a religious fatalism sets in
Six things to expect in the pope's address to Congress
LGBT Kenyans gain the right to organize, and churches promise to fight
First diplomat for LGBT rights speaks out
Sr. Mary Ann Walsh, longtime Catholic bishops' spokeswoman, dies at 68
