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[Catholic Caucus] Head of Austrian Bishops’ Conference says priests cannot say ‘no’ to blessing homosexual couples anymoreArchbishop Franz Lackner said that priests 'can no longer say no' to a request for a 'blessing' of a homosexual couple despite the unchangeable Catholic teaching that the Church cannot bless sinful relationships.The head of the Austrian Bishops’ Conference, Archbishop Franz Lackner, has said that priests “can no longer say no” to a request for a “blessing” of a homosexual couple after the publication of the Vatican’s controversial Declaration Fiducia supplicans. Lackner expressed his “joy” over the publication of the document that allows the...

Following the news today that US elite forces had executed ISIS leader Abu Sayyaf, ISIS supporters threatened to kill President Obama online. Vocativ reported: Shaken by a daring U.S. military strike deep in ISIS territory, supporters of the extremist organization were vowing revenge for the killing of senior leader Abu Sayyaf or claiming the special operations mission never took place, a Vocativ analysis reveals. “If they took Abu Sayyaf, we will take Obama,” one ISIS supporter posted in the hours after the raid, which took place near the eastern Syrian city of al-Amr.