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[Catholic Caucus] Vatican analyst: Pope’s new preacher teaches ‘rainbow bible’CV NEWS FEED // Vatican analyst Luisella Scrosati has raised concerns over Pope Francis’ appointment of Capuchin Friar Roberto Pasolini as the new Preacher of the Papal Household.In a recent piece published in the Daily Compass, Scrosati critiqued the selection as evidence of a broader Vatican trend of normalizing homosexuality within Church discourse, particularly through what she describes as “ideological” reinterpretations of Scripture.Father Pasolini’s recent theological positions on homosexuality form the crux of Scrosati’s critique. The new preacher has suggested, for instance, that certain Biblical relationships — such as those between...

[Catholic Caucus] Malta’s Archbishop Celebrates Mass Marking 20 Years of Drachma LGBTI+ MinistryArchbishop Charles Scicluna celebrating Mass for Drachma LGBTI’s 20th anniversaryA key Vatican official joined with Maltese LGBTQ+ Catholics and allies to celebrate 20 years of inclusive ministry in the country, with the prelate telling attendees: “We accept each other as siblings; and we welcome each other as a precious gift.”Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta joined Drachma LGBTI+ for Mass on September 17th to mark the organization’s two decades of pastoral work with faithful from the island nation noted both for its strong Catholic identity and leadership on LGBTQ+...

More than 140 United Methodist Church congregations in the Susquehanna Conference, including 14 in the Harrisburg area, plan to end their affiliations with the denomination under agreements approved by the conference Wednesday night. Among those churches are 14 in the Harrisburg district and 43 in the York district. The seven-district Susquehanna Conference includes 870 churches, almost 150,000 members and close to 580 pastors. Nationally, simmering disagreements over the 6.4 million-member church’s position on ordaining and marrying members of the LGBTQ community, as well as other issues, have caused a rift fueling the “disaffiliations” by more moderate and conservative churches. Marriage...

Priest Goes to Get Gaymarried in Canaries — Bishop: “He hasn’t asked to leave the priesthood” According to Matteo Matzuzzi, the Bishop of Verona, Giuseppe Zenti who was assigned in 2007, in Italy, has said the following about his priest who ran off to the Canaries to get sodomarried.  He writes,  Veronese priest goes to the Canaries and gets married with his friend. The bishop: "He is still a priest, he has not asked to leave the priesthood. One of my predecessors had prevented his ordination, but he went to be ordained in Rieti.”

Father Matthew Despard had written a book about a powerful gay mafia in the Catholic Church in Scotland and is set to resign after pressure from the bishop.A Catholic priest at the centre of a gay mafia row is being pressurised to resign as parish priest after a three-year battle with the church. Father Matthew Despard was sent a three-page letter from Bishop of Motherwell, Joseph Toal, calling for him to quit his post at St John Ogilvie’s Parish in Blantyre. Father Despard wrote a book claiming that a “powerful gay mafia” was operating at the top of the Catholic...

TROY - Investigators hired by the Albany Diocesan Review Board to look into allegations of sexual misconduct against Bishop Howard Hubbard refused to interview an elderly person who may have shed light on the death of Rev. John Minkler. The interview was supposed to occur in Minkler's 11th-floor office at the Stratton Veterans Affairs Hospital in Albany, but private investigators representing Mary Jo White walked away from the table after realizing the elderly person wanted attorney John Aretakis in the room. Minkler was found dead in his Watervliet home just days after signing an affidavit stating he did not write...