USA churches are bracing for heat

[Dustparticle]

First it was Canada and now is USA  https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/pope-now-us-churches-face-boarding-school-reckoning-83911209

[Sequoia]

Hundreds of Indigenous children died at U.S. government boarding schools (msn.com)j They say that the number of known deaths could rise to the thousands or tens of thousands.

[William Lees]

Another sickening article, this time to do with the Baptist church. A secret database of offenders, absolutely shocking. 

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10843329/U-S-Southern-Baptists-release-scathing-report-sexual-abuse.html

[Parale]

2 hours ago, William Lees said:

A secret database of offenders, absolutely shocking.

 

In 2019, as part of their original investigation, The Houston Chronicle newspaper has ready published a searchable database of 263 offenders from the past 20 years, spread over 30 states, and Washington D.C.

 

 

 

 

[bagwell1987]

Just another incident where religion is in trouble with politicians.

https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-pushes-back-archbishop-denies-142331353.html

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Tuesday on the decision by San Francisco's conservative Catholic archbishop to deny her Communion over her support of ab...

[Parale]

17 minutes ago, bagwell1987 said:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pushed back Tuesday on the decision by San Francisco's conservative Catholic archbishop to deny her Communion over her support of ab...

Here's the actual interview, with an interesting introduction by the presenter: "Here's something I bet you didn't know. My church, the Southern Baptist Church, was effectively pro-choice until 1980. This wasn't about Jesus. It was about politics. That was the rise of the Moral Majority in 1980, bringing abortion politics into the pews of Republican-leaning churches."

 

 

 

 

Edited May 24, 2022 by Parale