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Forget the numbers. The big story is that religion has lost social influence
TV and Internet? Meh. What Pope Francis really misses are pizza outings
Australians push for Vatican cardinal to testify on abuse
Charles Manson's chaplain speaks out amid national death row debate
Ireland's gay marriage referendum a sign of Roman Catholic decline
John M. Templeton Jr., philanthropist devoted to science and religion, dies at 75
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
