The Catholic Church treats information shared during confession as absolutely confidential – but that requirement can create legal dilemmas.
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Catholics disagree over how to adapt the church’s doctrine and practices, especially marriage, to different cultures.
Churches’ struggles to respond to the plague and constant warfare in the 14th and 15th centuries helped shape the kinds of Christianity in the world today.
Forty years ago, the Mormon church reversed restrictions on its members of African-American descent. Today, the church wants to celebrate the value of its diversity.
