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Chicago meets its new archbishop as the ‘Pope Francis effect’ sets in
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...New ‘Nuns on the Bus’ tour to tackle political ‘dark money’
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(RNS) This time it’s the Catholic sisters versus the Koch brothers.
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Religious leaders announce vote campaign
Faith leaders who sit to the left in U.S. politics say they won’t let the religious right claim the moral mantle in the elections of 2014.
...Christian leaders differ on strikes in Iraq, Syria
While some prominent Christians have called on the United States to take more forceful military action against Islamic extremists in Iraq and Syria, more than 50 leaders of Catholic, Protestant, an...
US must 'destroy' Islamic State, say some U.S. religious leaders
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...ANALYSIS: Did Obama finally thread the needle on gay rights and religious freedom?
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...Report: Minnesota Archbishop Nienstedt under scrutiny for same-sex relationships
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...ANALYSIS: Hobby Lobby beat the contraception mandate. Here's why the nuns may not
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...Could baptizing children of gay couples become a new battleground?
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...Vatican says the church can’t ignore social media
Social media can bring out the worst in people, and even Pope Francis’s enormously popular Twitter feed is peppered with nasty comments....
Abuse victims divided on pope's offer to meet
Pope Francis’s recent announcement that he would meet with victims of sexual abuse by priests is dividing victim advocates, with some dismissing the move as “meaningless” and others endorsing it as...
Notre Dame signals it is open to gay athletes
The Catholic Church in the United States has taken a lot of heat over its stance against gay rights and for policies that often bar openly gay people from participating in church life.
...Cardinal Kasper, the ‘pope’s theologian,’ downplays Vatican blast at U.S. nuns
NEW YORK (RNS) The German cardinal who has been called the “pope’s theologian” said fresh Vatican criticism of American nuns was typical of the “narrower” view that officials of the Roman Curia ten...
Debates linger after tests on ‘Jesus’ wife’ papyrus
A year and a half after unveiling a slip of papyrus that she dubbed “The Gospel of Jesus’s Wife,” Harvard biblical scholar Karen King has released the results of long-delayed testing on the controv...