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A prominent Episcopal bishop ripped a female cleric's collar off after she briefly forgot her words at an LGBT-friendly Easter Vigil that was emceed by a drag queen. A video captured the jaw-dropping moment when Bishop Alan M. Gates snatched the collar from Reverend Tamra Tucker's neck during the service at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on March 30. He has now been branded a misogynist and forced into a groveling apology over the incident, which was live-streamed online. In the footage, Rev. Tucker, who is the leader of The Crossing, an LGBTQ-inclusive congregation, explained to the...

The Passionist Nuns were founded in the 1700s in Italy by St. Paul of the Cross. In 1910, five of the sisters arrived in the U.S. and went to Pittsburg, PA, eventually spreading out to Erlanger, KY, in 1947. In this video, Sr. Mary Angela, a Passionist sister who lives with eight other women in the Erlanger community, introduces us to their ministry of making wafers for communion at Mass. She particularly addresses children who are making their first Holy Communion. Since May and June are two months when most children make their first communion, Sr. Mary Angela’s tour is a great tool for...