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Although official Catholic teaching opposes same-sex marriage and same-sex sexual activity, there are many Catholics who want the church to be more inclusive toward LGBTQ+ people. Among them are nuns in the U.S. who have ministered empathetically to LGBTQ+ Catholics, and took note when the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence made news last month. “They’re an important signal to the LGBTQ community

Two prominent North Carolina natives from the music industry will have an ownership stake in the Hornets. Rapper J. Cole and country music artist Eric Church are both members of the ownership group led by Gabe Plotkin and Rick Schnall that is finalizing the purchase of a majority stake in the Hornets from NBA legend Michael Jordan, according to a release from the team on Friday. “The Buyer

A group of migrants bused hundreds of miles from the Texas border unexpectedly arrived at Union Station in downtown Los Angeles. The migrants were taken to St. Anthony’s Croatian Catholic Church. The bus pulled into Union Station in downtown Los Angeles carrying weary parents who had spent more than 20 hours on the road trying to soothe their infants and toddlers. Carrying a woman whose

When General Efraín Ríos Montt assumed dictatorial control over Guatemala after a coup in March 1982, he was able to bolster his murderous rule by calling on a special group of friends, the leaders of the American religious right. Guatemala is a predominately Roman Catholic country, but Ríos Montt converted to evangelical Christianity in 1978, becoming an adherent of the Church of the Word, a