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• Religion, politics and the common good
  When political discourse is marked by bitter partisanship, how and where can people of different faiths and political ideologies find common ground?The Daily Circuit, May 16, 2013
• Pope blasts 'cult of money'
  Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the "cult of money" that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer goods.May 16, 2013
• Building a bridge between skeptics and believers
  Among the most divisive issues in American life - guns, abortion, same-sex marriage - no gulf seems quite so deep as that between religious believers and nonbelievers.The Daily Circuit, May 6, 2013
• Interfaith service in memory of Boston bombing victims
  President Barack Obama will speak at an interfaith service in memory of the bombing victims at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston today.The Daily Circuit, April 17, 2013
• Pope supports crackdown on US nuns
  The Vatican said Monday that Pope Francis supports the Holy See's crackdown on the largest umbrella group of U.S. nuns, dimming hopes that a Jesuit pope whose emphasis on the poor mirrored the nuns' own social outreach would take a different approach than his predecessor.April 15, 2013
• Lao New Year unites groups to celebrate together for first time in Minn.
  Organizers of the Lao New Year's event in Crystal on Saturday say they brought the region's Hmong, Burmese and Laotian communities to celebrate together for the first time.April 14, 2013
• Holocaust Remembrance Day: Liberator Leonard Parker and survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering
  Yom Hoshoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day 2013. Hear an emotional letter from 22-year-old US Army Sgt. Leonard Parker at the liberation of the Dachau concentration and death camp, and MPR interviews with Holocaust survivors Lucy Smith and Sabina Zimering, who live in Minnesota. Both girls hid from the Nazis.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, April 5, 2013
• Pope's first Easter Mass sends messages of peace
  Pope Francis celebrated his first Easter Sunday Mass praying for world peace and urging a diplomatic solution to the standoff on the Korean peninsula. Only two weeks after his election, the first pope from the developing world continues to make his mark on the Catholic Church.March 31, 2013
• Shroud of Turin goes on display amid new research
  The Shroud of Turin went on display for a special TV appearance Saturday amid new research disputing claims it's a medieval fake and purporting to date the linen some say was Jesus' burial cloth to around the time of his death.March 30, 2013
• America Abroad: Religious minorities in the Middle East
  The Middle East is largely Muslim but it's also the birthplace of Christianity, Judaism and many other religions. This edition of America Abroad is a discussion about Christian communities in Egypt, Jews in Tunisia, Alawi's in Syria and the declining religious diversity in the Middle East.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, March 28, 2013
• Francis made strong critique of church at conclave, Cardinal says
  Pope Francis issued a strong critique of the church before the College of Cardinals just hours before it selected him as the new pontiff, according to comments published Tuesday by a Roman Catholic magazine in Cuba.March 26, 2013
• Karen Armstrong speaks on the world's religions and our global responsibilities
  Acclaimed British comparative religion writer Karen Armstrong gives a 2012 Chautauqua Lecture about the long and sometimes violent path to modernization and democracy. She says the "Golden Rule" is embedded in all of the world's major faiths, and we all must feel responsibility for the pain of other human beings throughout the world.Minnesota Public Radio News Presents, March 22, 2013
• At installation Mass, Pope Francis urges protection of nature, the poor and weak
  Pope Francis urged princes, presidents, sheiks and thousands of ordinary people gathered for his installation Mass on Tuesday to protect the environment, the weakest and the poorest, mapping out a clear focus of his priorities as leader of the world's 1.2 billion CatholicsMarch 19, 2013
• Minneapolis Basilica celebrates Mass, special ties to new Pope Francis
  The Basilica was decked out in papal colors, gold and white bunting hung from the entrance, and a flag with the pope's coat of arms was displayed near the pulpit.March 14, 2013
• New pope's views bind simplicity with 'complexity'
  Twin messages are now expected to frame the beginning of the papacy of Pope Francis: Reinforcing the Vatican's views on issues such as birth control and women's ordination, yet showing an activist streak toward poverty and international debt.March 14, 2013

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