Managing editor Kim Lawton reports that the weather is continuing to cause problems. On Sunday, the Tea Party ended up meeting in the sanctuary of a Tampa megachurch, and Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition rallied as well.

The former British prime minister converted to Catholicism and established a foundation to address issues of faith and globalization. “The big issue of our time,” according to Blair, “is trying to deal with extremism based on a perversion of religion, and how you get peaceful coexistence between people of different faiths and cultures.”

Watch more of our interview with Tony Blair, who says faith can provide strength and spiritual consolation, but “it can’t tell you the right answer. You’ve got to work that out, in a sense, on your own. It can’t determine your policy, because life’s not like that, I’m afraid.”

We talk with Rev. Frank Wade, interim dean of the Washington National Cathedral, about the value of cathedrals in a twenty-first century world and the role a cathedral can play in helping the nation understand the relationship between faith and politics.

"I do not believe that the preferential option for the poor means a preferential option for big government," says Republican vice presidential candidate and Roman Catholic Paul Ryan.

“The spirit of resilience is deep in the heart of the Sikh faith,” says Valarie Kaur, a Sikh woman from Auburn Seminary in New York. “Sikhs have died for their turbans, died for their faith, but drawn from their faith to rise up again and not be afraid.”

It’s the 75th anniversary of the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant near Palmyra, New York, a lavish spectacle based on the Book of Mormon.

It's the 75th anniversary of the annual Hill Cumorah Pageant near Palmyra, New York, a lavish outdoor spectacle based on the Book of Mormon. Artistic director Brent Hanson talks about the history and significance of the pageant.

"The theology of Rome, the authority of Rome—that was appealing to us," says Father Mark Lewis of St. Luke's Parish, the first US Episcopal church to join the Catholic Church under new Vatican rules.

"It targets one community, one faith," says Naeem Baig of proposed legislation to ban US state courts from considering shariah. "It is to create this fear of Islam and Muslims in the larger society."

Father Paolo Dall'Oglio, an Italian Jesuit priest and leader of the Deir Mar Musa monastery in Syria, was exiled last month for criticizing President Bashar al-Assad. On July 23, he spoke at an interfaith iftar meal in Arlington, Virginia. Dall’Oglio warned against the increasing violence in Syria and acknowledged what he sees as an urgent need for international outreach and intervention.

“One of the great gifts of Vatican II was that it sent us back to study what the Gospels were saying.”

How close are US Catholic ties to the Vatican going to be in the future? “That’s a question that is definitely up for grabs in this particularly dispute.”

What does it mean to be in the modern world? “Renewal and adaptation—that’s where all of the controversy comes.”

National religion reporter David Gibson says a faith-versus-works debate is underway over the Colorado shooting. Does evil just happen, or can we repair the world?

"This is not just about the Vatican versus the nuns," says Sister Maureen Fiedler. "This really is about the future of how we interpret the message of the Second Vatican Council."

"What are legitimate changes...and what are changes that are really more driven by the secular culture and its values?" Watch more of our interview with columnist and author Colleen Campbell.

"What is a woman religious? If we can come to some clarity as to what a woman religious is in the life of a church, then we can understand the relationships of women religious to the church."

The many works on view at the Met in New York demonstrate how artistic motifs were shared and used by people of different faiths in different regions over the centuries.

The National Cathedral is hosting several panels from the AIDS Memorial Quilt ahead of the 19th international AIDS conference in Washington. The Right Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, retired bishop of Washington pro tempore, blessed a panel from an AIDS memorial quilt that arrived from St. George’s Cathedral in South Africa, where it had been blessed on its departure for the US by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.