Rocco Palmo, blogger for Vatican news site, Whispers in the Loggia, joins us to talk about faith while the Church is in crisis; and we bring you this morning's headlines.

Today is Good Friday. Christians believe that on this day, Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross. This Easter Sunday Christians worldwide will celebrate Christ's resurrection. The Catholic Church may very well be hoping for a minor healing miracle of its own as a decades-old sex abuse scandal continues to plague church leaders in the U.S. and abroad.

New York Times finance reporter Louise Story previews unemployment numbers for March and tells us how temporary jobs with the Census Bureau, and February's bad weather may skew the numbers.

The Obama administration will announce a new approach to airport security today, which aims to allow U.S. agencies to share information on dangerous passengers before they board. New York Times White House reporter, Jeff Zeleny explains.

Russia says it is suffering from a "tsunami" of heroin flooding the country, and all of it is coming from the poppy fields of Afghanistan. Addicts and counter-narcotics officers in Russia want NATO to do more to stop the influx of the drug.

The NCAA final four begins on Sunday in Indianapolis. To get you ready for some great games we take a look at where great players come from. Several of the hotshots from Duke and Butler cut their teeth, not on the urban blacktop, but in the dirt roads of rural America. How common is this? Very! 

Tyler Perry’s latest film, “Why Did I Get Married Too?”, hits theatres nationwide today. And, as with all of his films, it’s expected to open at number one or number two at the box office and rake in tens of millions of dollars over the coming weeks.

Marc Steiner, host of the "Marc Steiner Show," talks about new school reforms in Baltimore; this morning's headlines.

We’ve been talking all week about how to make American schools better. Do we increase funding, create better tests or shut down failing schools? This time, we look to learn from two cities experimenting with their own education policy reforms, Baltimore and New York City.

Move over, Thanksgiving. Easter weekend is shaping up to be a big one for televised sports. The Final Four square off in Indianapolis Saturday, and Major League Baseball opens (in a major way) at Fenway on Sunday. Takeaway sports contributor Ibrahim Abdul Matin joins us to talk about what the weekend holds for the NCAA, and for the Yankees and the Red Sox.

We're holding Mother Nature responsible for this week's nominations. In partnership with The Week magazine, we find that it was a good week for an uninhibitated island in the Bay of Bengal and a bad week for Rhode Island basements.

The federal government announced its first ever mandatory limits for particular greenhouse gas emissions, as the EPA and the Department of Transportation announced new emissions rules for automobiles and light trucks yesterday.

Villavicencio is a rural town in Colombia and a place associated with left-wing guerilla movement FARC, but it is also the home of the annual Cowgirl World Championships.

From "The Lovely Bones" to "What Dreams May Come," our popular conception of heaven is becoming increasingly beautiful and irreligious.