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Obama’s contraception compromise falls flat with bishops, GOP

While challenges to President Obama's contraception rule could take the form of legal and legislative assaults, the White House and the Obama re-election campaign are comfortable with the revised rule, believing most Americans -- and particularly most women -- are on...
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COMMENTARY: The phony war on religion

(RNS) Religion's enemy isn't government. If anything, the American system has bent over backwards to protect religion from the accountability, fairness and justice that are expected of other citizens. No, religion's enemy -- if it has one -- is itself. By Tom Ehrich....
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Southern Baptists to stick (mostly) with same name

(RNS) A task force recommended Monday (Feb. 20) that the nation’s largest Protestant denomination maintain its official name but give Southern Baptists the option of calling themselves "Great Commission Baptists.’’ By Adelle M. Banks.
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Southern Baptists won’t vote on name change
Why Ash Wednesday belongs out of the church and out on the streets
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Nonprofit groups oppose Obama’s change in charitable deductions

WASHINGTON (RNS) For the fourth year in a row, President Obama is proposing lower tax deductions for the wealthy on donations to churches and other nonprofit organizations. And for the fourth year in a row, nonprofit groups say the change would lead to a dramatic drop...
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