The ambiguities in a seven-year-old document from Catholic and Jewish dialogue partners are continuing to cause confusion.
Supreme Court candidate Sonia Sotomayor took on detailed questions about court cases both famous and arcane.
In addition to giving Obama a copy of his latest encyclical, the pope also presented a copy of a recent Vatican document on biomedical ethics.
Christian and Muslim leaders called two bomb blasts in Jakarta on July 17 "uncivilized acts" and urged the police to apprehend the culprits.
The Group of Eight nations have pledged $20 billion to combat global hunger through greater support of agriculture
Catholic bishops from Spain's Basque region kept quiet about the killing of priests by right-wing forces during the Spanish Civil War.
Pope Benedict XVI underwent a procedure under local anesthesia to repair a fractured right wrist.