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Catholic school apologizes for omitting girl’s tux photo, offers to reprint yearbook
SAN FRANCISCO — A Catholic prep school in California has issued a public apology and offered to reprint the school’s yearbook after intentionally omitting a senior’s photo from because she wore a tuxedo.
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Catholic principal regrets using Ellen DeGeneres photo in dance invitation
NEWTOWN, Pa. — The principal of a Catholic elementary school in suburban Philadelphia is apologizing to parents for having used a photo of celebrity Ellen DeGeneres on an invitation to an Oscars-themed graduation dance.
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Portrait of girl in tuxedo omitted from Catholic school’s yearbook
SAN FRANCISCO — A Catholic high school in San Francisco came under fire on Friday for refusing to include a portrait of a female student wearing a tuxedo in the school yearbook.
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Catholic Church fires woman from job feeding the hungry over her same-sex marriage
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph has fired a woman in charge of distributing food to the homeless and hungry after learning she is gay and in a same-sex marriage.
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Pope to convene synod to discuss gay marriage, divorce, contraception
The Vatican will convene an meeting of senior clerics this fall to re-examine church teachings on its most controversial issues: same-sex relations, divorce and contraception.
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Gay administrator fired by Catholic school for marrying partner gets new job
MERCER ISLAND, Wash. — The Mercer Island, Wash., School District says it plans to hire a gay administrator who was forced out of his job at a suburban Catholic school after his same-sex marriage.
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Advocate for homeless LGBT youth calls on Pope to end religion’s anti-gay messaging
NEW YORK — Homeless LGBT youth advocate Carl Siciliano, executive director of the Ali Forney Center, America’s largest shelter for homeless LGBT youth, is calling on Pope Francis to to lead the world’s religious communities in bringing an end to the “grave moral failure” by the Church to embrace LGBT youth and families.
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Argentine president to be godmother to lesbian couple’s baby
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez has agreed to be the godmother of a lesbian couple’s baby in a Roman Catholic cathedral.
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Cincinnati Catholic teacher contract gets specific on behavior, ‘lifestyles’
CINCINNATI — The doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church is so complex the Archdiocese of Cincinnati is giving teachers a cheat sheet on some of the things that can get them fired — such as having an abortion, artificial insemination or engaging in a “homosexual lifestyle.”
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Catholic nun tells students gay parents abuse kids, masturbation turns boys gay
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Students and parents at Charlotte Catholic High School are speaking out after they say a campus lecturer forcefully condemned homosexuality with outdated statistics, prejudiced stereotypes and other extremist claims.