WEEK IN RELIGIONAfter nearly 500 years of division, the Roman Catholic Church and Lutherans are putting their differences aside. In a nearly unanimous vote on Aug. 10, the 2016 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Churchwide Assembly (the largest denomination of Lutherans in the U.S.) approved the "Declaration on the Way," which recognizes that "there are no longer church-dividing issues" on many of the points originally posted by Martin Luther in 1517. That year, Luther nailed his 95 [...]
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