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   “Even with these recent changes, the American religious commitments are incredibly stronger than in most other advanced countries in the world. The average American is slightly more religious than the average Iranian, so we are a very religious country even today.” ROBERT PUTNAM, Harvard University professor, interviewed as part of the “Losing Our Religion” series on NPR’s…

• Pope Francis

  “There is no other word for it: the divisions between Christians are a scandal.” POPE FRANCIS, in a general audience to mark the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. (RNS)

• Bernice King

  “As Mark 8:36 teaches, ‘For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul?’ Our father MUST be turning in his grave.” BERNICE KING, daughter of Martin Luther King Jr., on her brothers’ desire to sell her father’s Bible and Nobel Peace Prize medal, in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. (RNS)