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More than 100 people prayed in cold pouring rain for the defeat of an abortion-expansion amendment outside the Massachusetts State House in Boston on Saturday afternoon, an organizer said. Opponents of the proposed legislation say it would legalize infanticide.
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The city of New Bedford has rescinded its 100-person limit on church gatherings — regardless of the size of the church — in response to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring New York Democratic Governor Andrew Cuomo from severely limiting attendance at church services there. On November 25, the U.S.
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A former Catholic school principal is among the Massachusetts state representatives who voted for an abortion expansion amendment that would remove a current requirement that doctors try to save the life of a baby who has survived an attempted abortion. State Representative Steven Ultrino (D-Malden) served from July 2004 to
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Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker has no immediate plans to shut down access to church services again because of coronavirus, but he isn't taking it off the table – even after a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week overturned the governor of New York's order severely limiting
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An abortion expansion amendment to the state's budget bill has drawn immense opposition in Massachusetts from church-going Christians, with a wide-ranging coalition of religious leaders signing their names to a letter urging it to be defeated. Earlier this month, New Boston Post reported that more than 300 Massachusetts
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More than 600 students and alumni at a Catholic college in Worcester are expressing outrage that the chaplain's office of the school sent out an email message expressing support for Catholic teaching on same-sex marriage. The group is threatening to withhold donations to the school unless school officials
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Pope Francis came out in favor of same-sex civil unions, Cardinal Sean O'Malley came to his defense, and the Catholic Action League of Massachusetts went on the offensive against both of them this week. O'Malley's statement Thursday supporting the pope amounts to "a
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A day after Pope Francis rocked the Catholic world with the publication of comments supporting civil unions for same-sex couples, Catholic bishops in New England are reacting with questions, nuance, or silence. "What we have to create is a civil union law. That way they are legally covered. I
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