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From Maya to the mosque, it is all the same God

On a just-completed trek to the Yucatan Peninsula and its environs, something was reinforced for me that I had just learned during a Ramadan visit...
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Pope speaks on Holocaust Remembrance Day

On Holocaust Remembrance Day, January 27, Pope Benedict XVI acknowledged the sixty-fifth anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, the former...
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Benedict moves Popes Pius XII and John Paul II closer to sainthood

On December 19, Pope Benedict XVI signed decrees extolling the heroic virtues of Pope Pius XII, Pope John Paul II, and several other holy men and...
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Pope to rebels: respect for Judaism and other religions is non-negotiable

Pope Benedict XVI made news when he lifted the excommunication of four bishops of the renegade group, the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX), one of...
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Christians and Muslims: together in overcoming poverty

On September 11, the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue published its annual Message to Muslims for the end of the month of Ramadan....
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Vatican denies Jewish interference in beatification of wartime pope

More than fifty years after his death, Pope Pius XII remains a controversial figure in Catholic-Jewish relations. Speaking at a Vatican bookstore...
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