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United Methodist Church Votes To Keep Bans On Same-Sex Weddings, LGBTQ Clergy
The One Church plan would have allowed individual churches to decide how they handle issues of same-sex weddings and the sexuality of their clergy. It failed to win support on Tuesday. -
Massachusetts Gets Its First Hair Salon Designed For Muslim Women
A new salon gives Massachusetts women who wear a hijab a place of refuge. -
All Revved Up: Can The Catholic Church Be Redeemed?
Revs. Emmet Price and Irene Monroe joined Boston Public Radio to talk about the recent Vatican summit on church sexual abuse and discuss their views on if the church can be redeemed. -
Pope Calls For 'All-Out-Battle' On Clergy Sex Abuse, With Few Specifics
In a Mass at the end of his four-day summit, Pope Francis called priests who had abused minors "instruments of Satan." But critics said his address did not offer a strong message against clergy abuse. -
United Methodist Church To Debate LGBTQ Clergy And Same-Sex Weddings
United Methodists are among the last mainline Protestant denominations to address the issue, and some worry it could cause a major rift in the church. -
'A Life Destroyed': Survivors And Pope At Vatican Summit Address Clergy Sex Abuse
One survivor said a priest forced her to have abortions after raping her. The pope said he has come up with 21 "reflection points" designed to address the crisis. -
The Catholic Church Faces Credibility Crisis Amid Summit On Clergy Sex Abuse
Vatican gathering comes in wake of defrocking of ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick. -
As Pope Holds Sex Abuse Summit, U.S. Catholics Not Hopeful For 'Bold Moves'
American Catholics have become disappointed as Pope Francis described the meeting as featuring "prayer and discernment" — hardly an ambitious vision for what could have been a momentous event. -
Sex Abuse Survivors To Meet With Vatican Summit Organizers
These abuse survivors will not be addressing the summit of church leaders itself. Rather, they will meet Wednesday with the four-member organizing committee to convey their complaints. -
All Revved Up: 'Is The Catholic Church Irredeemable?'
Reverends Irene Monroe and Emmett Price discuss the defrocking of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, after the church found him guilty of sexual abuse.
