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Could baptizing children of gay couples become a new battleground?

By David Gibson — June 26, 2014
(RNS) Catholic leaders have carefully, if quietly, avoided doing anything to block gay couples from having their children baptized. But a new policy drafted by a Wisconsin bishop is prompting worries these baptisms may become a new battleground.

When Pope Francis washes women’s feet, arguments follow. Who’s right?

By David Gibson — April 15, 2014
(RNS) Pope Francis will spend Holy Thursday washing the feet of disabled people, some of them women and some perhaps non-Catholics. That upsets traditionalists, who say the rite should be restricted to men only. So who's right?

Atheists sue IRS for failure to monitor church politicking

By Kimberly Winston — November 15, 2012

(RNS) A First Amendment watchdog group is suing the Internal Revenue Service for not challenging the tax-exempt status of churches whose pastors engage in partisan politicking from the pulpit. By Kimberly Winston.

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