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Getty Images – STOCK (NEW YORK) — Pope Francis formally signed off on allowing Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples in December 2023. But decades before the pope’s historic announcement, a New York City church has embraced the LGBTQ+ community and provided a safe space for worship. The Church of St. Francis Xavier, in Manhattan’s […]

Bill O’Leary/The Washington Post via Getty Images (BALTIMORE, Md.) — More than 150 priests and others associated with the Archdiocese of Baltimore are accused of sexually abusing more than 600 children in a newly released report from Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown. The report, which examined thousands of documents dating back to the 1940s, […]