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News (World)
Pope Francis says homosexuality is not a crime in “historic” statement
Pope Francis did still call it a sin, but said that no country should criminalize homosexuality.
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Politics
64 things Joe Biden has done for the LGBTQ community during his first year in office
Joe Biden has repeatedly made time to uplift the LGBTQ community despite the challenges of the previous administration and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
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Commentary
Pope Francis sends another signal to US Catholic bishops to lay off the anti-LGBTQ attacks
In two letters to New Ways Ministry, a group persecuted for decades for its outreach to LGBTQ Catholics, the pontiff praised its “neighborly approach.”
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Bias Watch
Vatican tells exorcist priests to stop trying to cast out COVID-19
The church employs hundreds of priests “trained” in demonic possession.
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Bias Watch
Pope Francis puts anti-gay cardinal on “spiritual time-out” after child abuse cover-up
Cardinal Rainer Woelki – who has tried to push the Vatican toward more conservative, anti-LGBTQ policies – tried to resign. Pope Francis wouldn’t accept it.
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News (World)
Pope Francis once again “clearly” refuses to affirm same-sex marriages
“These are our brothers and sisters and we need to be close to them,” he claimed, “but marriage as a sacrament is clear.”
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News (USA)
Vatican fears that more Catholic priests will be outed using Grindr data
The same right-wing reporters that outed a Grindr-using Catholic leader have released more reports, suggesting that they could out several people within the Catholic Church – including some possibly living at the Vatican.
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Commentary
Catholic & Southern Baptist leaders are making faith more about their politics than God
America has become more secular and less religious. So religion has responded by becoming more political, and conservative causes are used as the litmus test.
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News (World)
The Vatican is attacking an Italian LGBTQ rights bill in unprecedented act of political meddling
It seems the threat of LGBTQ people being seen as equal was simply too much for the Church to bear quietly.
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News (World)
German Catholic churches are defying the Vatican & blessing same-sex unions
Four churches are giving divine favor to gay couples because “love wins.” Over 100 more are planning to join in the coming weeks.
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Life
“Mean Girls” actor Daniel Franzese fired from Catholic college gig because he’s gay
He got a letter a day after the Vatican called same-sex relationships “sin” canceling his gig because of the “personal beliefs of the higher administration.”
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News (World)
Pope says Catholic Church can’t bless same-sex relationships because they’re “sin”
The Catholic Church says that same-sex relationships are not compatible with “the designs of God inscribed in creation.”
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Bias Watch
GOP lawmaker forgets “religious freedom” & gets mad at Catholic Church for pushing the COVID vaccine
“This will age well when he demands religious organizations be allowed to fire people for who they have sex with.”
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Commentary
Joe Biden’s openly pro-LGBTQ agenda may sow further divisions in the Catholic Church
The Catholic right hates Joe Biden for his support of LGBTQ rights, which will likely lead to the growing rift in the Church even more.
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Commentary
Don’t let Pope Francis’ nice words confuse you. The Church is still discriminating against us.
Some call the Pope’s acceptance of civil unions “revolutionary.” But his words far from absolve Francis and the Catholic Church from continuously restraining the human and civil rights of LGBTQ people.
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Life
Everyone – including the Vatican – wanted to see a Elton John biopic happen
An investigation in the Church’s city-state show that voluntary donations for the poor made up a majority of the bucks given to a company that funded “Rocketman”, among other ventures.
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News (World)
Pope Francis compares leaders persecuting LGBTQ people to Hitler, Nazis
The Pope also denounced harming the environment, police brutality, and antisemitism without directly naming any current perpetrators.
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News (World)
Vatican declares trans people will ‘annihilate the concept of nature’
The new booklet issued during Pride month calls on public schools to respect Catholic parents by not teaching about trans people.
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News (USA)
Pope Francis is giving anti-LGBTQ conservatives all the ammo they need
His wishy-washy response to the Church’s sex abuse scandal leaves space to make LGBTQ people the scapegoat.