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(RNS) With his flowing black robe and long white beard, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is a living portrait of the 2,000-year-old Orthodox Christian faith. And yet, he says, he’s somewhat of a revolutionary. “By calling Christianity revolutionary, and saying it is dedicated to change, we are not siding with progressives — just as, by conserving it,…

(RNS) In the national fight over legalizing gay marriage, New Jersey is a battleground state. It’s the last state standing with a civil union law that has not explicitly prohibited or allowed gay marriage. Other states with civil union laws have already moved on, calling that union “marriage” or defining marriage as only between a…

VATICAN CITY – Pope Benedict XVI will meet with the Archbishop of Canterbury next month in the leaders’ first encounter since the Catholic church moved to make it easier for disenchanted Anglicans to convert to Catholicism, a Vatican spokesman said Friday. Archbishop Rowan Williams, the Anglican leader, was already due to visit Rome in November…

The U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to hear the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport’s appeal of a state court decision to make public more than 12,000 pages of clergy sexual abuse files. “We were disappointed to learn that the United States Supreme Court has decided not to hear our case. The Court reviews only…
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