As recently as last Friday, Pope Francis apparently tried to rein in certain interpretations of the document. He insisted that what he is doing is authorising the Roman Catholic Church to make a pastoral gesture directed at the individuals involved and not their union. Rather than approving the blessing of same-sex unions, Francis says the document should be seen as approving the blessing of the people involved in a same-sex union.
Read moreThe Helsinki Court of Appeal unanimously acquitted Räsänen and Pohjola in November, which followed a similar acquittal by the three-judge District Court of Helsinki in March 2022. The charges against Räsänen began with her 2019 tweet that referenced Bible verses to criticize the Finnish Lutheran Church's promotion of LGBT "pride month."
Read moreOur political and ideological neighbours and, above all, our neighbours' children have been captured in the quicksand of a new relativism. It is a kind of self-generated madness that has disturbed and distorted their self-understanding, and the way it expresses sexuality.
Read moreWorldometers bases its daily abortion figures on a fact sheet from the World Health Organization, which estimates an even higher figure for abortions per year than Worldometers. "Around 73 million induced abortions take place worldwide each year," the WHO says.
Abortion is also the leading cause of death in the United States.
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Read more"I saw this blasphemous statue and was outraged. My conscience is held captive to the word of God, not to bureaucratic decree," Cassidy told the outlet, paraphrasing Martin Luther's defense before the Diet of Worms. "And so I acted."
Read moreThe group of male performers parodies religious women by dressing in drag and habits.
Prominent Roman Catholic officials, including Archbishop Jose Gomez of Los Angeles, Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York, and the president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, Archbishop Timothy Broglio of the Military Services, lamented the Dodgers' invitation as "not just offensive and painful to Christians everywhere; it is blasphemy."
Read moreYou were featured on "CBS Sunday Morning" last week, and some of the online criticism of your book that popped up immediately (from the usual suspects) assigned political motivation and timing to the project. But this book isn't just political; it's also personal. Can you explain why that's so?
Read moreAs I looked at the photograph of Christian Climate Action disrupting a service of divine worship - the choral Evensong at Chichester Cathedral on Tuesday night -- suddenly I was more than usually involved in an incident I had not been physically present at.
A large four-metre banner of protest is held up in front of the Canon stalls, declaring that "Chichester Diocese funds climate chaos". The place was very familiar.
A WARM FRONT
Read moreThere is an extreme reluctance even to discuss Christian persecution. Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a Nigerian teenager, thanked Jesus on social media for helping her with an exam. She was falsely accused by a classmate of blasphemy against Muhammad and was murdered by a mob of Muslim students. In May 2022, a motion to debate the issue of persecution of Christians, in particular the case of Deborah, was dismissed in the European Parliament with 231 votes in favour and 244 against.
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