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A gay Franciscan priest who served as a Catholic chaplain for the New York City Fire Department.

According to the National Catholic Reporter, Judge rushed to the scene of the World Trade Center shortly before the Twin Towers collapsed.

He was fatally struck by debris falling from the South Tower while giving last rites to a fallen firefighter.

the catholic publication reported he was a decent wonderful human being said new york gay journalist andy hum who had interviewed judge for lgbtq related stories prior to the 9-11 attacks i saw him at many demonstrations for gay and aids causes showing up in his franciscan monks uh cassock uh hum told the washington blade five years ago at the 20th anniversary and he was equally beloved by the fire department there at every major fire tragedy in the city there's also francis d barnado Executive Director of New Ways Ministries, a Maryland-based LGBTQ Catholic group that advocates for LGBTQ supportive policies within the church, reported five years ago that his group was supporting an effort to call on the Catholic Church to officially recognize judge as a saint by canonizing him.

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It's also on the National Catholic Reporter every Monday.

Wow.

And on my website, beatitudecenter.org, and I give talks on Jesus and nonviolence.

And and abortion and things like that.

But it used to be that he would call out systemic racism, according to reporting and the National Catholic Reporter and a guy who writes, who wrote a couple of articles, what happened to Bishop Barron, the magnification of Bishop Barron.

And then there was one on letters from Leo where this other writer talked about how Since the second Trump term, suddenly Bishop Barron stopped talking quite so much about Catholic social teaching, definitely stopped talking about systemic racism, but then he started... going to Maga things.

And he was present when Trump was compared to Jesus.

he's changed up.

Yeah.

I mean, and that's that was the theme from the National Catholic Reporter and from letters from Leo and the guy who wrote the magnification articles that there has been a marked change over time that has gotten worse since MAGA 2.0.

And so, man, I really feel like, you know, and I've said this before, Trump is not the sickness.

I just am blown away that this hasn't gotten a lot of national attention.

But this from ncronline.org. And again, it's all over the place in...

Local news in Vermont, but I grabbed it from here.

Seven faith leaders were arrested in Williston, Vermont on September 4th, charged with blockading the entrances to a building where workers help immigration agents target their efforts, while the clergy insisting their faith compels them to oppose President Donald Trump's ongoing mass deportation campaign.

Father Reese is an American Jesuit priest and journalist.

He is the former editor-in-chief of America, the Jesuit Monthly, and has also been a columnist for the National Catholic Reporter.

He's now a senior analyst for Religion News Service, a news agency that focuses on religious affairs, but not specifically on the Catholic Church, for which he wrote the column.

He was appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom by then-President...

It's too long, I think, to read in full for the channel.

So we're going to go to, we'll use LifeSite's kind of look at it, the National Catholic Reporter's look at it, because they're definitely on the team.

And remember, the people on the team are the ones who will sometimes speak the most bluntly about their goals when they think they're speaking only to their intended audience, or when they have absolute power in the church and they know nobody can stop them, which is in the case of the National Catholic Reporter.

Here's a life site right up.

A lengthy document published by the International Theological Commission entitled Caring for Our Common Home, A Responsible and Fraternal Response to the Triune God, refers to the holy sacrifice of the mass as an ecological school.

This week he opened the second season of creation of his pontificate by celebrating another care for creation mass.

And yeah, that season of creation is a new informal liturgical season, as I spoke about yesterday.

Let's go here to National Catholic Reporter.

That's all they had their eyes set on.

A National Catholic Reporter has this amazing article, headline, New book illuminates the true barrier to women's diaconate.

The true barrier to women's diaconate, they say, is rigidity.

They don't say it's theology, because they claim that there is ironclad proof of ordained deaconettes in the Bible.

I don't know, a more proactive excommunication where a pope or the bishops just get together and stop them, stop men like him.

It was back in like the 70s, the National Catholic Reporter, which is very pro-James Martin, they were told to stop calling themselves Catholic.

New Ways Ministry was told to stop calling itself a Catholic organization, and they were called to repent by the bishops back in the 70s.

Here we are 50 years later, and those organizations are still around, and they're no longer really corrected by the bishops.

Love isn't the only word taking a beating this week.

The National Catholic Reporter, a liberal publication that spent decades at odds with the church it's named after, ran a guest column urging readers to spend August praying to transgender saints.

August, it turns out, is Transgender History Month, a designation California made official a few years back, and the rest of us managed to miss that entirely.

The column claims saints who crossed gender lines have been in the church since the beginning, and it offers a list.