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Catholic Church Used For Profane Rap Video Questioning Why God Allows Certain Conservatives To Live

Matthew McDonald

A pastor who allowed a rap video to be shot inside his Catholic church in Worcester is expressing surprise that it includes profanities, drinking, and complaints that God hasn't taken the lives of Laura Ingraham, Tomi Lahren, and President Donald Trump.

Monsignor Francis Scollen, the pastor, was away from the parish when he approved the shooting of the rap video, but he told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette that he wouldn't have done so if he had known what would be in it.

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No Weed Farming in Westport

Matthew McDonald

Town Meeting voters in Westport have said no to marijuana farming, despite an effort by the Craft Cannabis Co-Op Committee appointed by the town's board of selectmen.

The zoning bylaw change would have allowed growing and manufacturing marijuana and selling it to a wholesale retailer elsewhere in Massachusetts, but no retail sales within the town.

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