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A group of individuals held a ceremony to ordain a transgender individual, Loan Rocher, and biological women into the Catholic church in defiance of the church’s ban against women and LGBTQ+ individuals from positions of leadership. The group met for the service on the Tiber River in Rome, within the very shadow of the Vatican.…

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Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer is facing backlash after a video surfaced of her with TikTok content creator Liz Plank allegedly mocking communion. In the video, Plank is kneeling, resembling the pious position Catholics adopt when accepting communion. Whitmer is then seen feeding the chip to Plank in a fashion similar to a Catholic priest. According…

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The Turin Shroud has had decades of mystery surrounding it, with the faithful insisting the strange markings around it, that appear to be blood, and the eerie image of a man’s face indicating the Shroud may in fact be Jesus’s own burial shroud. Skeptics, however, have claimed the Shroud to be a fake, dating from…

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In a remarkable and unexpected occurrence, worshippers at the Basilica of St. John the Baptist in Ohio were left in awe when a statue of the Virgin Mary seemingly blinked at them during a recent church event. The incident, which many are calling a miracle, has sparked widespread attention, with video and photographic evidence circulating…

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Carlo Acutis, an Italian teen who designed a website documenting various Eucharistic miracles and led a faithful life before he died at 15 years old, will be canonized, the Vatican announced. Acutis was one of 15 people approved for canonization at an Ordinary Consistory of Cardinals, according to the Vatican News website. Alex Jones, CEO…

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