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Assessing President Obama's first 100 days

'In some ways the United States still doesn't get religion.'

Catholics and the Rise of Barack Obama

The many journeys of Mary of Nazareth

A Catholic community mourns a fallen soldier.

Some, But Not All   A correspondent in a recent issue (Letters, 4/20) wrote that "it is a great pity that the American bishops do not choose to lead by recognizing the complexity of the issue on which they are called to teach, and then teaching in a way that produces more light and less heat.&r

New England is sometimes considered the birthplace of religious liberty in America because several of the early colonies were founded by adherents of denominations being persecuted in Europe in the seventeenth century. They saw the isolation of colonies in the new world as a haven to practice