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US bishops set collision course with Vatican over plan to press Biden not to take Communion

By Steven P. Millies — June 16, 2021
(The Conversation) — A debate over whether President Biden's views on abortion disqualify him from taking Communion serves to expose a rift between US bishops and the pope, and is a threat to the church itself.

Slow church movement fights the ‘McDonaldization’ of church

By Bob Smietana — March 27, 2014
(RNS) The book’s authors are part of a loose network of writers, friends, theologians and pastors who apply the lessons of the slow food movement to congregational life.
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