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The rise and fall and rise of the National Council of Churches (COMMENTARY)
By Jacob Lupfer — September 26, 2014
WASHINGTON (RNS) Perhaps the influence of the National Council of Churches was overinflated during its heyday a half-century ago, but it is a mistake to ignore the people behind the NCC.
This year’s March for Life reaches a new group: evangelicals
By Sarah Pulliam Bailey — January 17, 2014
(RNS) James Dobson will speak at the March for Life rally on Jan. 22, as part of a new strategy to expand the annual event's reach beyond its Catholic base to include evangelicals.
Catholic, Reformed churches agree on baptism
By Adelle M. Banks — January 31, 2013
(RNS) Leaders of Catholic and Reformed churches have signed an agreement to recognize each other’s sacraments of baptism in a public step toward unity among groups often divided by doctrine.
Lutherans warn Vatican against simpler conversions
By Alessandro Speciale — January 23, 2013
VATICAN CITY (RNS) Lutheran leaders have warned the Vatican that the creation of a structure to welcome conservative Lutherans into the Catholic Church would harm dialogue and damage ecumenical relations.
Four priests, four friends: Bishops witness historic changes in Catholic life
By Peggy Fletcher Stack — January 9, 2013
(RNS) Released from the Catholic cocoon of seminary in 1962, the four young priests faced a church on the brink of volcanic reform with the opening of the Second Vatican Council. After being schooled in a Vatican I church, the foursome would step down as powerful American prelates, five decades later, as quintessential Vatican II men. By Peggy Fletcher Stack.
Christian Churches Together chooses new executive director
By Adelle M. Banks — June 29, 2012
(RNS) Christian Churches Together in the USA, a 10-year-old ecumenical network, has chosen a Presbyterian as their new executive director. By Adelle M. Banks.
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