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Lawrence Cunningham
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LOCATION: Notre Dame, IN,
Lawrence S. Cunningham John A. O'Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame. Author of Francis of Assisi: Performing the Gospel Life and Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision.
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Roman Catholicism, Christian church that has been the decisive spiritual force in the history of Western civilization. Along with Eastern Orthodoxy and Protestantism, it is one of the three major branches of Christianity. It is led by the pope, as the bishop of Rome, and the Holy See forms theā¦
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