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The Dalai Lama, right, was welcomed Sunday by Geshe Kalsang Rapgyal, left, executive director of Louisville's Drepung Gomang Institute, and Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer at the Yum Center.

15,000 hear Dalai Lama speak in Louisville

Exiled Tibetan leader and Nobel Peace Prize winner the Dalai Lama came to Louisville on Sunday for the first time since 1994, bringing his distinctive message of compassion not just for all humans but for other species.

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A posthumous fall from grace

By the time the letter arrived, the grass on Benjamin Hawkes' grave had grown thick. Historians had chronicled how he transformed the Los Angeles archdiocese into a billion-dollar institution. His portrait had been etched into a metal plaque and bolted to the wall of a sprawling church on Wilshire...
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Support group for clergy sex-abuse victims asks Lexington bishop to investigate priest

Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP), a support group for clergy sex-abuse victims, is urging the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lexington to investigate and punish a priest suspended over sex abuse allegations. The priest is living in McCreary County.
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Iconographer paints images to inspire faithful

COPLEY TOWNSHIP, Ohio — A plain white wall rose above the altar in the sanctuary at St. Demetrius Serbian Orthodox Church.
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RCTalk: Amy Grant's new album features a sound that has improved with age

Amy Grant's Free paints a familiar picture. She sings about recently being handed an old photograph of herself after a show and seeing a girl, "with wind in her hair, sun in her smile, hardly a care, and no sense of style." Those of us who started listening to contemporary Christian music in the...
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The Dalai Lama brings message of compassion to Louisville

When the Dalai Lama comes to Louisville as part of his 2013 United States tour, expect the world to be listening.
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Voices of Faith: Does God shine a light on some more than others?

VOICES OF FAITH: DOES GOD SHINE A LIGHT ON SOME MORE THAN OTHERS?
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Hospital doctor delivers infusion of hope to Jehovah's Witness

On the day the Boston Marathon bombing transfixed the world, Mark Watkins of suburban Kansas City, Mo., lay face to face with a crisis of life, death and faith of his own.
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After rebuke by archbishop, Cardinal Mahony takes higher profile

When Los Angeles Archbishop Jose Gomez stripped his predecessor, Cardinal Roger Mahony, of public duties for mishandling clergy sex abuse cases, a church spokesman said the retired prelate's life would remain largely the same with one exception: confirmations.
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Colombia celebrates its first Catholic saint

In her lifetime, Laura Montoya's stubborn determination to help Colombia's indigenous people brought the reproach of society, the political elite and the church, which viewed her work with suspicion and accused her of being unstable.
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Southern Baptists' name change seeks to shed historical baggage

MIAMI — After 87 years, the University Baptist Church of Coral Gables, Fla., recently shed its name for something it felt was more forward-looking — Christ Journey.