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	Saved by the City Eat the Rich! Jesus Had Something to Say About That + Malcolm Foley Katelyn Beaty and Roxanne Stone Katelyn and Roxy talk to Malcom Foley about the insidious legacy of greed on countries, systems and individuals.
	Martini Judaism Is it time to retire the term ‘Zionism’? Jeffrey Salkin (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	Complexified Philip Reed-Butler, Black AI and the future of healing Rev. Amanda Henderson (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

	Martini Judaism (RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.
	The State of Belief Plus: Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, author of a new report on same-gender marriage and religious freedom
	Complexified (RNS) — A theologian and technologist is building Black AI for the inner life, where healing begins with imagination.

Jeffrey Salkin

Is it time to retire the term ‘Zionism’?

(RNS) — Zionism is the right of the Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland. But is that all it means? Two Jewish thought leaders have it out.

Jeremy David Engels

Why it’s OK to say ‘namaste’ in yoga class

(The Conversation) — In a polarized world, the greeting may be an acknowledgment of our interconnectedness.

Thomas Reese

Pope Leo proclaims church’s best-kept secret in ‘Magnifica Humanitas’

(RNS) — Chapter 2 of the encyclical might be called the official ‘Cliff Notes’ version of Catholic social teaching.

The US founders’ other revolutionary choice: Separating religion and government

Peter C. Mancall

(The Conversation) — European colonial powers linked church and state. But the founders of the United States broke from that idea as surely as they broke from Britain.

Philippine devotees honor St. John the Baptist with a mud-covered display of faith

Aaron Favila, Maria Teresa Hernandez and Joeal Calupitian

BIBICLAT, Philippines (AP) — The Taong Putik, or Mud People, festival is held annually in this village in Asia’s largest Catholic nation as devotees thank the local patron saint for miracles and fulfill vows made in prayer.

These traditionalist Catholics are defying Pope Leo XIV, and embracing their outsider status

Nicole Winfield

The group, which celebrates the traditional Latin Mass and rejects the modernizing reforms of the Catholic Church, is planning a highly organized, four-day, livestreamed extravaganza for the consecrations at its Swiss seminary — complete with a souvenir wine set offered to those attending.

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