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At a time when the Pope isn’t doing much to help Jewish-Catholic relations, the Boston Diocese reaches out.

Sunando Sen’s death was more than a case of mistaken identity.

State of the Union address wasn’t as grown up as it could have been.

Creationist textbook publisher, who once got caught doing a sloppy revision of its materials, wants to submit “supplemental materials” for the classroom.

“Dog Bites Man,” (i.e. nothing much happened), and it is news.

A mythical American history with Protestant sensibilities and heroes.

But dialogue is what we need most in difficult times

I just finished leading a burial service for a man I didn’t know and a family I’d likely never see again. The son of the deceased, a grandfather himself, scanned the nearby graves and pointed to an inscription for a 23-year-old woman who died in 1931. “My aunt passed before I was born. She had an illegal abortion,” he said as if our unfamiliarity gave him permission to unearth a family secret.

Arguing about what is a “true religion.”

He’s growing up, but still has a way to go before he treats religion like an adult.