“I believe that marriage education is the best anti-poverty program the federal government has ever invested in, “ says Dennis Stoica, president of the California Healthy Marriages Coalition.

During World War II, conductor Rafael Schaechter led Jewish musicians in performances of Verdi's Requiem before Nazi audiences at the Terezin concentration camp and said, "We can sing to them what we cannot say to them."

Voodoo recognizes an invisible world of great spiritual power, according to Sallie Ann Glassman, a Voodoo priestess, community organizer, and founder of the New Orleans Healing Center.

Watch excerpts from Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's recent speech describing his 2009 conversion to Catholicism and his concerns about rising secularism in America.

An acclaimed new movie shows that a monastery is "at once a refuge and a very integral part of the world," says Jesuit priest James Martin, and that "the life of faith is not without doubt."

Reformation historian, award-winning memoirist, and Cuban émigré Carlos Eire says reading the medieval devotional book "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas à Kempis was, for him, "a conversion experience."

The Catholic peace movement Pax Christi USA met outside the White House for prayers of repentance for war.

A program of study, dialogue, and commemoration encourages Jewish and Christian high school students to understand each other's faith.

Writer Mary Karr says what struck her about Catholicism "wasn't the grandeur of the Mass, it was the simple faith of the people" and "the carnality of the church. There was a body on the cross."

Watch much more of correspondent Judy Valente's conversation with Mary Karr about God, prayer, poetry, and the Catholic faith.