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Pope approves blessings for same-sex couples, but with rules
Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change…
RELIGION
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Why thousands of United Methodist churches bolted
The United Methodist Church has been undergoing a major upheaval as more than 7,000 congregations across the country, one quarter of the total, decided whether to leave the denomination or remain…
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Priest suspended for living arrangements with his ‘roommate’
A conservative Catholic investigative publication has turned a spotlight on the activities of a Wisconsin priest and the man he has “cohabitated” with for several years…
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How Trump has transformed the Evangelicals
Donald Trump and American evangelicals have never been natural allies. Trump has owned casinos, flaunted mistresses in the tabloids, and often talked in a way that would get him kicked out of church. In 2016 many…
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Moms for Liberty co-founder embroiled in a bi group sex scandal
We are… gagged! (Not really, this kind of stuff happens all the time.) Christian Ziegler, the head of Florida’s Republican Party and husband of Moms for Liberty…
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Pope Francis punishes a second anti-LGBT US Cardinal
Pope Francis has punished one of his highest-ranking critics, Cardinal Raymond Burke, by yanking his right to a subsidized Vatican apartment…
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Christian nationalist appointed to Arkansas state library board
This past Monday Republican Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders appointed Jason Rapert, a Christian nationalist, anti-LGBTQ+ activist and former state senator to the state library board…