Topic: Belief and Practice
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The Chabad-Lubavitch movement formed decades ago with the intention to reach out to the Jewish people, regardless of background, to teach them about their faith. More
Read more of Judy Valente’s interview with Father Marco Antonio Mercado of Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Chicago: Father Marco Antonio Mercado Q: Help us to understand some of the events in the liturgy celebrating the Virgin of Guadalupe, and … More
Read more of Judy Valente’s interview about Hispanic Catholics with Friar Gilberto Cavazos Gonzalez, who directs the Hispanic ministry program at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago: Friar Gilberto Cavazos Gonzalez Q: How would you characterize the Hispanic Catholic community … More
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Finally, excerpts from an evening with Garrison Keillor. The bard of Lake Wobegon and “A Prairie Home Companion” was also at the Washington National Cathedral recently, talking about poetry, singing old hymns, and telling stories about the … More
Read more from the interview about the Jewish High Holidays with Rabbi Dan Ehrenkrantz, president of the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College: Sin is central to the holiday of Yom Kippur. Yom Kippur is literally the Day of Atonement, and so to … More
The major Hindu festival of Janmashtami celebrates the birth of the popular deity Krishna — and with a real baby.
TIM O’BRIEN, guest anchor: A birth, a marriage, a death — these events are often surrounded by religious ritual and tradition. But how are those passages in life observed by those who do not believe in a God? We went … More
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: We had a chance early this past spring to visit members of a Chinese family as they honored their ancestors at their graves. It is the belief of many Chinese that there is an ongoing spiritual connection … More
BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: Although the magnitude of the crisis be overwhelming, the Christian relief group World Vision has come up with a creative way to help church youth groups understand the problem of world hunger and what they can do … More
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