Born the youngest of five children to an Irish Catholic congressman and his wife, Caroline Casey was an unlikely student of astrology.

But for the past thirty years, in her work as a Washington area astrologer, Casey has formed a spirituality of her own by melding social action, myth and astrology.

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Barry Lynn does not just want to protect the state from religion. He wants to protect religion from the state.

"Religion flourishes best when governments just leave it alone," Lynn said to On Faith's Sally Quinn in the Divine Impulses interview.

»Watch the Lynn, a lawyer, United Church of Christ minister and executive director of Americans United for Separation of Church and State talk to Sally Quinn about the trouble with the presidential candidate's overuse of religion and why religious people should be skeptical of faith-based politics.

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California's first lady, Maria Shriver, considers herself "a Catholic in good standing," but in an interview with On Faith, said that she disagrees with the church's teachings on divorce, homosexuality and abortion rights.

On abortion, she said "I often talk to my daughters and at my dinner table about the difference between being pro-abortion versus pro-choice. . . I believe that that choice should be left to a woman."

But Shriver does look to Catholic teaching for inspiration and uses her position as first lady to promote women's empowerment. "I believe in the compassion and justice of Jesus Christ, I believe in the social justice of the Catholic Church," Shriver added.

Shriver recently sat down with On Faith behind the scenes of her women's conference in Long Beach, CA, which brought together political, business, cultural and entertainment leaders under the theme of empowering women.

»Watch Maria Shriver talk social justice, the role of women in the Catholic Church and her spiritual message for women today.