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When a Jesuit high school in Indianapolis refused to cut ties with one of its teachers – one who was in a same-sex marriage – the local archbishop announced that the school could no longer be called Catholic. It is a complicated subject, often misunderstood or falsely reported.
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U.S. Representative Stephen Lynch has long had a reputation for being the least crazy of Massachusetts's nine Democratic congressmen. He initially opposed Obamacare, for instance, when he correctly discerned that union members in his base were going to get shafted by it when they lost their private
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U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi received the 2019 Profile in Courage award at John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston on Sunday, May 19. She was praised "for putting the national interest above her party's interest." Whatever she did or did
Culture
When the woman showed me her daughter's photos, I thought nothing of it, except to relish in the beauty of the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris. We were aboard a Delta flight out of Logan. My son settled in by window, and me in the middle, when
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Unplanned is a movie that you will never forget after watching. I can say that from a very personal level as it managed to pierce the thick skin of skepticism that I have developed over the years of civic and political activism. It certainly shows that while there are many
Editorials
The timbers of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris had been drying out for eight centuries, so when a fire started near the roof they burned quickly, lighting up the sky in a riveting and sad spectacle Monday. The drying timbers, though beautiful before they were consumed, are a reminder
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The parish priest who preached the sermon at U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy's 2009 funeral Mass has been suspended by the Diocese of Fall River. Bishop Edgar da Cunha placed Father Mark Hession on leave "based on complaints he received about inappropriate communications that Father Hession
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An exchange between two men who have felt same-sex attraction but have sharply different takes on it highlighted nearly three hours of testimony about a proposed ban on conversion therapy at the Massachusetts State House. Ken Williams, a California man who co-founded Changed, an organization of men and women who
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