3 big US churches in turmoil over sex abuse, LGBT policy
It has been a wrenching season for three of America’s largest religious denominations, as sex-abuse scandals and a schism over LGBT inclusion fuel anguish and anger within the Roman Catholic, Southern...
View ArticleWoman held in Poland for adding LGBT rainbow to revered icon
Above: Flyers of religious icon altered with LGBT symbol (Photo: Beata Zawrzel / AP) WARSAW, Poland (AP) | Rights groups and government critics in Poland protested on May 7 after police temporarily...
View ArticleDC Catholic school will acknowledge LGBTQ alumnae couples
WASHINGTON (AP) | A 220-year-old Catholic girls’ school in Washington, D.C., will now allow news about same-sex unions in its alumnae magazine. News outlets report the president emerita of Georgetown...
View ArticleAustralian political leaders agree gays don’t go to hell
ABOVE: Scott Morrison, Prime Minister of Australia. (From Wikimedia Commons) CANBERRA, Australia (AP) | The leaders of both of Australia’s major political parties agreed on May 14 that gays don’t go to...
View ArticleCatholic agency seeks right to anti-LGBT discrimination from Supreme Court
A new Supreme Court petition seeks a First Amendment right for Catholic agencies to discriminate against LGBT people. (Washington Blade file photo by Michael Key) A new petition filed before the U.S....
View ArticleEx-diplomats urge Trump to pressure Poland on rule of law
ABOVE: President Donald J. Trump participates in an expanded bilateral meeting with Polish President Andrzej Duda in June 2019 in the Cabinet Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by...
View ArticleDC Archbishop welcomes trans Catholic into ‘heart of this church’
ABOVE: D.C. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory. Archbishop Wilton D. Gregory, who Pope Francis appointed in April as head of the Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, told a transgender man at a gathering of...
View ArticleCatholic adoption agency refusing to certify LGBTQ homes wins in court
A federal judge has in ruled in favor of a taxpayer-funded Catholic adoption agency in Michigan refusing to certify LGBTQ couples as qualified to take children into their homes. U.S. District Judge...
View ArticleFrench conservatives protest bill allowing IVF for lesbians
ABOVE: An in vitro fertilization laboratory. (From Wikimedia Commons) PARIS (AP) | Conservative activists marched through Paris Oct. 6 to protest a French bill that would give lesbian couples and...
View ArticlePolish conservatives win lower house but lose Senate
ABOVE: Poland’s parliament. (From Wikimedia Commons) WARSAW, Poland (AP) | Poland’s conservative ruling Law and Justice party capitalized on its popular social spending policies to win a majority of...
View ArticleIKEA manager charged for firing Polish employee over anti-gay remarks
ABOVE: IKEA building. (Photo by Alexander Isreb, from Pexels.com) WARSAW, Poland (AP) | A Polish prosecutor has charged an IKEA manager with violating the religious rights of an employee sacked for...
View ArticlePolish president calls LGBTQ ‘ideology’ worse than communism
ABOVE: Polish President Andrzej Duda in 2015. (Photo by Radosław Czarnecki, from Wikimedia Commons) WARSAW, Poland (AP) | Polish President Andrzej Duda accused the LGBTQ rights movement June 13 of...
View ArticleChurch music director: I was fired over same-sex marriage
ABOVE: Saint John Fisher Chapel University Parish, the church Terry Gonda worked. (Photo by Nheyob from Wikimedia Commons) AUBURN HILLS, Mich. (AP) | A music director at a Catholic church in suburban...
View ArticleFormer Niagara assistant coach files human rights complaint
(Above photo in the domain photo, from Wikimedia Commons) BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) | An assistant women’s basketball coach at Niagara University who resigned last week has filed a complaint against the...
View ArticleCourt revives lawsuit of teacher fired for same-sex marriage
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) | A lawsuit filed by a teacher who was fired from his job at a Catholic high school in Indianapolis for being in a same-sex marriage can proceed, a state appeals court ruled. A panel...
View ArticleVatican official apologizes for taking down LGBTQ resource
(Photo in public domain) ROME (AP) | A Vatican official has apologized to a leading Catholic LGBTQ advocacy group for having yanked a reference to it from the Vatican website, saying he realized the...
View ArticlePope urges parents to ‘never condemn’ their gay children
Pope Francis. (Photo by Casa Rosada (Argentina Presidency of the Nation), from Wikimedia Commons – Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license) VATICAN CITY (AP) | Pope Francis urged...
View ArticlePicking Berry: The T isn’t silent
I grew up very religious, in the kind of religion that relied on not asking a lot of questions. It was also the kind of religion where you could sleep in the same bed as your same-sex partner of 20...
View ArticleLGBTQ-supportive US bishop named by Pope as a cardinal
Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego. (Photo from sdcatholic.org) Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, one of Pope Francis’ ideological allies who has often sparred with more conservative U.S. bishops,...
View ArticleThe AP Interview: Pope says homosexuality not a crime
(Photo by Mazur/catholicnews.org.uk, via Flickr) VATICAN CITY (AP) | Pope Francis criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust,” saying God loves all his children just as they are and...
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