A Southern California Catholic bishop announced Tuesday that he is lifting the obligation for local Catholics to attend Mass if they have reason to fear immigration enforcement after people were detained on church property in two parishes in his diocese. https://lnkd.in/eAvxGbBb
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The world’s largest Baptist university became the center of a culture-war clash this week as it celebrated, then rejected, a $643,401 grant awarded to fund research on the “exclusion of LGBTQIA+ individuals and women within congregations.” https://lnkd.in/erwAGSfU
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Dueling letters from U.S. Catholic bishops criticizing the One Big, Beautiful Bill to varying degrees offered a rare public glimpse of a rift in the church that’s been years in the making. https://lnkd.in/eFXhwCBE
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This week on "Martini Judaism," researcher Doug Mishkin joins to discuss the famous Scopes “Monkey Trial” of 1925 – and it's relevance 100 years later. Listen now! https://lnkd.in/ecCxxQJe
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