Straightwashing: Did the Pope just make a gay Cardinal a saint?

October 13, 2019 compassq 5 THINGS TO KNOW, LIFESTYLES, RELIGION Comments Off on Straightwashing: Did the Pope just make a gay Cardinal a saint?
Cardinal John Henry Newman is pictured in a 1860 or 1861 photo provided by the Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory. (Courtesy of Fathers of the Birmingham Oratory via Catholic News Service)

Tens of thousands of people went to the open-air ceremony in Rome.

Newman, England’s most famous Catholic convert who died in Birmingham in 1890, is the first English person to be made a saint in almost 50 years.

But questions remain over…