In Michigan, the Christian Reformed Church is talking about Catholics:

GRAND RAPIDS — More than 400 years after the Protestant Reformation, the Christian Reformed Church is trying to take back a historic slap against the Catholic Church.

It’s not easy.

Delegates to the CRC Synod spent about three hours Wednesday attempting to tone down a 1563 Protestant doctrine declaring the Catholic Mass "a condemnable idolatry."

That section of the Heidelberg Catechism, a preaching and teaching tool for many Protestant churches, still smarts for West Michigan Catholics who work with or marry CRC members.

Two years ago, the CRC Synod declared the controversial passage no longer should apply as written. What they could not decide — and still could not Wednesday — was what to put in its place.