Criteria and eligibility for the $25,000 George W. Hunt prize for Catholic literary arts

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Get caught up with America's coverage of the Synod of Bishops on the Family, which ends this Sunday.

In Iraq and Syria, Obama must choose least worst among a number of awful policy options.

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Lawsuit in Baton Rouge, La., challenges the confidentiality of confessional seal.