The Catholic Church's stand on marriage, divorce, and contraceptives can seem out of step with the modern world—even to Catholics. Those who want to see reforms, such as making the process for obtaining an annulment easier, have been encouraged by recent statements of Pope Francis. But unhappy Catholics are still leaving the Church, and bishops will have to decide at a meeting in Rome next month on the family in the Church and in the contemporary world what to try to do about it. More →

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(RNS) “We are really a community for Jews who don’t reduce their Judaism to narrow political nationalism," said Rabbi Brant Rosen, the leader of the new Tzedek Chicago.

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