ROME (RNS/ENI) The Vatican newspaper has criticized the Swiss-born Roman Catholic theologian Hans Kung after he accused Pope Benedict XVI of an “unecumenical luring away” of discontented Anglicans. A column signed by the editor of L’Osservatore Romano, Giovanni Maria Vian, in Thursday’s (Oct. 29) edition said an article by Kung published in several European newspapers…

WASHINGTON, Nov 3, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) — Among provisions in the U.S. Senate version of healthcare reform is language that would require insurers to consider prayer treatments as medical expenses. The language — which would bar discrimination against “religious and spiritual healthcare” — would put Christian Science prayer treatments on the same plane as…

(RNS) With his flowing black robe and long white beard, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew is a living portrait of the 2,000-year-old Orthodox Christian faith. And yet, he says, he’s somewhat of a revolutionary. “By calling Christianity revolutionary, and saying it is dedicated to change, we are not siding with progressives — just as, by conserving it,…

(RNS) In the national fight over legalizing gay marriage, New Jersey is a battleground state. It’s the last state standing with a civil union law that has not explicitly prohibited or allowed gay marriage. Other states with civil union laws have already moved on, calling that union “marriage” or defining marriage as only between a…

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