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But in the culture wars, the <span style=\"color: #993300;\">Catholic leadership\u00a0is moving closer to the evangelicals\u00a0<\/span>and the mainline is moving elsewhere.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We may be on the brink of a religious realignment, whereby the issues on which Christians argued, fought, killed, and persecuted each other (and others) since the sixteenth century are giving way to a different source of division: the culture wars&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Yet the single most notable trend in mainline American Protestantism in recent decades has been the adoption of liturgical practices associated with Catholicism, such as frequent communion and observance of liturgical seasons, particularly since Rome reformed its own liturgy during and after the Second Vatican Council Catholics and most mainline Protestants have long since adopted a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commontexts.org\/rcl\/usage.html\" target=\"_blank\">common \u201clectionary\u201d<\/a> of scripture readings for use during worship services throughout the year. At the same time, the radical theological experiments that were once so fashionable in liberal Protestant circles have been subsiding; mainliners are far more likely to recite the historic Nicene or Apostle\u2019s creeds during worship than are evangelicals. 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