Summary: Why Popes John Paul II and John XXIII were catapulted to heavenly status with record speed. And "Buddhist Economics" lands in Berkeley's Econ department.
Summary: After the Kansas shootings--was this really about anti-Semitism? Also, the creative genius behind the New Yorker cartoons on humor and religion; and Barbara Ehrenreich turns inward for a memoir about her mystical encounters as a teenager.
Summary: Former President Jimmy Carter's new mission to stop violence against women--especially the kind carried out in the name of God. And a Nigerian imam teams up with a former enemy to work for peace.
Summary: Maureen travels to Guatemala, a country still debating the legacy of its most controversial leader, Rios Montt; and reflecting on the moral lessons of the Rwanda genocide, 20 years later.