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Top Swiss Bishop: Being gay is a weakness that can be cured
Jean-Marie Lovey, one of Switzerland’s most prominent Catholic Bishops, said on Tuesday that he is persuaded that “homosexuality can be cured” by prayer or “psychological healing.”
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Seton Hall priest says he was fired for supporting ‘NOH8 Campaign’
A Catholic priest says he was fired as director of Seton Hall University’s campus ministry after publicly supporting the “NOH8 Campaign” in a Facebook post.
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Bishop offends Catholics, gays in speech intended to denounce anti-gay discrimination
The Jesuit priest used a pejorative Spanish term for a gay man, and wondered aloud whether one of Jesus’ 12 apostles could have been homosexual and Mary Magdalene a lesbian.
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Gay teacher ousted from Catholic school gets new job
Skutt Catholic High School in Omaha, Neb., ousted Matthew Eledge after learning he was engaged to his same-sex partner.
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Growing Mormon-Catholic Alliance: Quiet partners behind the Christian Right’s religious discrimination agenda
One of the primary drivers of the movement to corrupt and redefine religious freedom isn’t someone in a shouting match on cable news, but a decades-long alliance of top Mormons and Catholics.
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Iowa Catholic school that refused to hire gay teacher approves gay-straight alliance
A West Des Moines Catholic high school that came under fire recently for refusing to hire a gay teacher, has approved a request by students to form a school-based gay-straight alliance called “One Human Family.”
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Cardinal Francis George, key Catholic orthodoxy voice, dies
Cardinal Francis George, a vigorous defender of Roman Catholic orthodoxy who fought tirelessly against the legalization of same-sex marriage in Illinois, and who once compared LGBT people to the Ku Klux Klan, died after a long fight with cancer.
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Some San Francisco Catholics call for ouster of anti-gay archbishop
More than 100 Bay Area Catholics went public with their complaints about the San Francisco archbishop, asking Pope Francis to replace Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone with someone more inclusive and less divisive.
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Vatican mum on why France’s appointment of a gay diplomat has stalled
The Vatican has yet to approve the appointment of an openly gay French ambassador to the Holy See, prompting observers to interpret the silence as a rebuke of the man’s sexual orientation.
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Catholic students stage walkout to protest school’s refusal to hire gay teacher
Students and alumni staged a walkout Wednesday in protest of a West Des Moines Catholic high school opting to not hire a substitute teacher full time after learning he was gay.