{"id":1110,"date":"2006-06-15T13:27:48","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T13:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/yet-another-religious-body-meets.html"},"modified":"2006-06-15T13:27:48","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T13:27:48","slug":"yet-another-religious-body-meets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/yet-another-religious-body-meets.html","title":{"rendered":"Yet another religious body meets.."},"content":{"rendered":"

In Michigan, the Christian Reformed Church is talking about Catholics:<\/a><\/p>\n

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GRAND RAPIDS — More than 400 years after the Protestant Reformation, the Christian Reformed Church is trying to take back a historic slap against the Catholic Church. <\/p>\n

It’s not easy. <\/p>\n

Delegates to the CRC Synod spent about three hours Wednesday attempting to tone down a 1563 Protestant doctrine declaring the Catholic Mass "a condemnable idolatry." <\/p>\n

That section of the Heidelberg Catechism, a preaching and teaching tool for many Protestant churches, still smarts for West Michigan Catholics who work with or marry CRC members. <\/p>\n

Two years ago, the CRC Synod declared the controversial passage no longer should apply as written. What they could not decide — and still could not Wednesday — was what to put in its place. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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