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Videos allegedly show Illinois priests engaged in homosexual acts

October 4, 2018 Joseph M. Hanneman 37

Home videos discovered in the basement of a Catholic church in south central Illinois show up to a dozen local priests dressed in drag and engaging in homosexual acts, according to sources claiming to have […]

Bishop Paprocki responds to controversy, criticisms over decree on same-sex “marriage”

June 28, 2017 Jim Graves 86

On June 12, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois issued a decree regarding same-sex “marriage” (SSM) and “related pastoral issues”. In it, he reaffirmed traditional Catholic teaching that marriage can only be “a covenant between one man […]