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Slur by Francis Lays Bare the Church’s Contradictions on Homosexuality
The pope used homophobic slang and cautioned prelates about admitting gay men into seminaries. But ordination has also long been a refuge for gay faithful.
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U.S. Catholic Bishops Apologize for Traumas of Indian Boarding Schools
The bishops acknowledged the church’s role in operating schools where Native American children faced abuses and forced assimilation.
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When Churches Cancel Their Own
More from our inbox: An Extremist Supreme CourtBiden’s ‘Failing Candidacy’Help After PrisonCredit...Marc Volk/Getty ImagesTo the Editor: Re “The Day My Old Church Canceled Me,” by David French (column, June 10): Mr. French’s discussion of the day ...
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Southern Baptists Reject Tighter Ban on Women in Pastoral Posts
The denomination voted against adding language to its constitution saying that “only men” could be affirmed or employed “as any kind of pastor or elder as qualified by Scripture.”
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Young Women Are Fleeing Organized Religion. This Was Predictable.
Alexis Draut, 28, was raised Christian in Kentucky. Her parents took her and her sister to nondenominational megachurches that adhered to a lot of Baptist and Pentecostal ideals, she said. As a kid, she loved the way every service felt “like a ...
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The Day My Old Church Canceled Me Was a Very Sad Day
This week, the leaders of the Presbyterian Church in America will gather in Richmond, Va., for their annual General Assembly. The Presbyterian Church in America is a small, theologically conservative Christian denomination that was my family’s church ...
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Pope Issues Apology After Reports That He Used Offensive Slang Word
Francis’ remark, referring to gay men, came during what was supposed to be a closed-door meeting with Italian bishops last week.
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Why Conservative and Liberal Catholics Can’t Escape One Another
Before Pope Francis was elected, conservative Catholics had fallen into a habit of dismissing the more liberal form of Catholicism as an old and faded thing, a vision of the future that belonged to the church’s past, a relic of the 1970s that had ...
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United Methodist Church Reverses Ban on Practicing Gay Clergy
In a meeting on Wednesday, church leaders also voted to allow L.G.B.T.Q. weddings.
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Rev. Cecil Murray, Leader Amid Los Angeles Riots, Dies at 94
He used his church, First African Methodist Episcopal, as a base to address the social ills that confronted the city’s Black population.