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VATICAN CITY (RNS) Pope Benedict XVI defended his plan to make it easier for Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, saying that it served the “ultimate purpose” of dialogue between the two denominations. The pope spoke on Friday (Jan. 15), at a special plenary session of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Catholic…

(RNS) A federal appeals court ruled on Thursday (Jan. 14) that a Kentucky county courthouse can keep its Ten Commandments display, overturning a lower court ruling. The “Foundations of American Law and Government Display,” at a Grayson County, Ky., courthouse included the biblical laws along with eight other historical documents. It was challenged by two…

Mormons are the most conservative, poll finds: Being linked so closely to the GOP presents problems, some say. Jan. 13–On the same day an LDS blog picked powerful Senate Democrat Harry Reid as “Mormon of the Year,” a Gallup poll declared Latter-day Saints the nation’s most conservative major religious group. Nearly 60 percent of Mormons…

“I’m ok. Can’t call. I’m OK. Start the list.” There was a crack in the Rev. Jeffrey Vamos’ voice when that text message made it out of Haiti and arrived in his parish hall Wednesday (Jan. 13) afternoon. “I’m a little choked up,” Vamos, of the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville, N.J., said as reporters and…
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