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Catholic archdiocese condemns funeral for trans woman held in its cathedral
One Catholic website is even calling for an exorcism.
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LGBT group banned from marching in St. Patrick’s Day parade again
The group wasn’t even allowed to say why they wanted to march before the host committee turned them down.
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Trump’s inauguration will be chock-full of anti-LGBTQ clergy
He may be having a hard time finding musical acts for his big day, but Trump has found no shortage of bigoted religious leaders to join him.
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N.Y. Catholic Cardinal to lead St. Patrick’s Day parade with 1st gay group
NEW YORK — There is no more natural spot for Roman Catholic Cardinal Timothy Dolan — a proud, ebullient Irish-American — than grand marshal of the city’s historic St. Patrick’s Day Parade. But the honor now has an added significance: Parade organizers said Wednesday they will allow the first gay group to march under its own banner. Dolan was quick to issue a statement…
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NY Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Catholics ‘outmarketed’ on gay marriage
NEW YORK — New York’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan says the Roman Catholic Church has been “outmarketed” on the issue of same-sex marriage and has been “caricatured as being anti-gay.”
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Vatican ambassador: U.S. bishops shouldn’t preach ideology
BALTIMORE — The Vatican ambassador to the U.S., addressing American bishops at their first national meeting since Pope Francis was elected, said Monday they should not “follow a particular ideology” and should make Roman Catholics feel more welcome in church.
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Pope’s blunt remarks on gays, abortion pose challenge for outspoken bishops
NEW YORK — In recent years, many American bishops have drawn a harder line with parishioners on what could be considered truly Roman Catholic, adopting a more aggressive style of correction and telling marriage equality and abortion rights supporters to stay away from the sacrament of Communion.
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Cardinal Timothy Dolan: Gays are ‘entitled to friendship,’ but not ‘sexual love’
America’s most high-profile Catholic official, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, says that gays and lesbians are “entitled to friendship” with each other, but that “sexual love” is intended only between a man and a woman.
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While Dolan prayed, his church preyed…
While Cardinal Timothy Dolan prayed at the Democratic Convention against my family and for the unborn, a Catholic leader in Kansas City, Bishop Robert W. Finn, was convicted of covering up the crimes of a pedophile priest, Rev. Shawn Ratigan, who liked to take nude pictures of the barely born…
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Anti-LGBT Archbishop tapped to give closing prayer at Democratic Convention
WASHINGTON — Cardinal Timothy Dolan, the Archbishop of New York, and one of the Catholic Church’s leading voices against marriage equality, has been tapped by the Democratic party to deliver the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte next week.