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These three key religious texts all offer justifications for defensive wars. But they also stress the importance of peace.

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The Rev. James Kelly baptized and married thousands of people, ministered to the ill at hospitals, and traveled the world.

The Diocese of Arlington, Virginia, recently ordained 12 new Catholic priests in a joyful Mass at its cathedral.

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Whether you're religious or not, we know the stories of Sodom and Gomorrah and Noah's Ark, but how about the one predicting ...

Was the Genoese navigator who claimed the Americas for Spain secretly Jewish, from a Spanish family fleeing the Inquisition?

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