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• Sacred Land: book review

  Cities as disparate as Moscow and Edinburg reveal their Christian roots in their lay out.

• Catholic priest seeks new trial after revelations about supposed abuse

  Rev. Gordon J. MacRae was tried in 1994 on abuse charges and sentenced to decades of imprisonment. New evidence may exonerate him.

• Saint of the Day: Robert Southwell

  For being a priest, Robert Southwell was hung by the neck and disemboweled, before having his body chopped into quarters in view of a marveling crowd in 1592 London. Sic transit gloria mundi.

• For Dolores Hart, God was bigger than Elvis

  Mother Dolores Hart is the focus of a new documentary: God is Bigger than Elvis. Once a movie star, she became a Benedictine nun at 24.

• Mitt Romney's Mormon culture and religion scrutinized

  While Mormon doctrine may give pause to Christians, it is Mormon culture that should get their focus.

Popular Commentary

• Shahbaz Bhatti's sacrifice echoes the lives of MLK and Gandhi

  "You must be the change you want to see in the world."

• Mitt Romney's Mormon culture and religion scrutinized

  While Mormon doctrine may give pause to Christians, it is Mormon culture that should get their focus.

• Obama's contraception mandate is simply not Kosher

  In speaking before the House of Representatives, Bishop William Lori of Connecticut resorted to the use of a parable to explain the widespread opposition to the Obamacare mandate on religious institutions.

• Eloquent pleas in opposition to Obamacare mandate

  Bishop William Lori, among other Christian and non-Christian religious leaders, have denounced the contraception mandate in Obamacare.

• Obama's No-Compromise comprise

  What compromise? A number of spokespersons from various Christian and non-Christian faiths have spoken out against the Obamacare mandate. Obama's adinisration is re-defining what constitutes the mission of any particular religion.

New World News

• Catholic priest seeks new trial after revelations about supposed abuse

  Rev. Gordon J. MacRae was tried in 1994 on abuse charges and sentenced to decades of imprisonment. New evidence may exonerate him.

• New edition of IBM and the Holocaust reveals incriminating documents

  The new edition of IBM and the Holocaust includes internal IBM correspondence that incriminates the company in aiding Nazi Germany and enumerating the victims extinguished in the flames of Auschwitz.

• UN forum in South-East Asia calls for more investment to reduce disaster risks

  Last year's devastating floods across South-East Asia were a “wake-up call” on the need for much greater investment in disaster risk reduction across the region, a United Nations forum heard today.

• South Sudan: UN urges ethnic groups to show how to 'make your own peace'

  The top United Nations official in South Sudan has urged warring ethnic communities in the country to find peaceful solutions to their disputes and to serve as an example to other groups about how to turn challenges into opportunities.

• In Cairo, UN Assembly chief holds talks on Egypt's democratic transition

  The President of the General Assembly and Egypt's Foreign Minister held talks today in Cairo on the state of the country's democratic transition in the wake of the Arab Spring reform movement.