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A priest in Philadelphia couldn’t contain himself this weekend and, according to the blog Creative Minority Report, he felt he had something he had to share: A priest at a Jesuit University in Philadelphia announced he was gay during Mass Sunday night to kick off the school’s “Unity Week.” During the homily, Thomas J. Brennan,…

Anyone planning to attend the Beijing Olympics next year will have to leave any dangerous and potentially lethal weapons at home. Things like, you know, your bible: Organizers of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing have published a list of “prohibited objects” in the Olympic village where athletes will stay. To the surprise of many, Bibles…

Five years after it began, the grim news continues: A prominent Jesuit priest accused of sexually victimizing teenage boys who were his valets as he traveled the world leading Roman Catholic spiritual retreats was taken into federal custody yesterday in Chicago. The priest, the Rev. Donald J. McGuire, was charged by the federal authorities with…

In 2004, a group of angry parishioners in Massachusetts began a sit-in at their parish to protest its closing. They’re still there. From The Boston Globe: It has been three years since the Archdiocese of Boston, as part of its controversial church closing plan, locked parishioners out of St. Frances X. Cabrini in Scituate. At…
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