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An LGBT Catholic group was threatened with arrest during a silent protest against NYC’s Cardinal Timothy Dolan who said gay worshipers must "wash your hands of sin" if they want to be welcomed by the Church.

The Vatican has defrocked a gay priest from Argentina who supported the country’s gay marriage bill in 2010.

Even officials in the Catholic Church are slamming their hierarchy for rank hypocrisy in the light of the now-former prelate for Scotland, Cardinal Keith O’Brien O’Brien, admitted to having relations with fellow priests.

A day after the House overwhelmingly passed a gay marriage bill the head of the State Senate said its fate hinges on how broad the provisions exemptoing religious denominations from performing same-sex weddings are.

Last year Archbishop-elect Salvatore Cordileone told the National Catholic Register that same-sex marriage was "a very serious social experiment that will have dire consequences."

The archbishop-elect for the San Francisco Catholic Archdiocese, a muscular opponent of same-sex marriage in California, was arrested in San Diego last weekend on suspicion of driving under the influence.

Gay Catholics in the Bay Area and elsewhere offered mixed reactions to the Vatican’s announcement that Oakland Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone has been named the new archbishop of San Francisco.

A British court has ruled that the Catholic Church can be held liable for wrongs committed by priests.

A former priest who has been accused of sexual abuse by a male teen has been placed under arrest for allegedly seeking to arrange the boy’s murder.

A Catholic College seemingly took revenge on a faculty member by making statements that he had downloaded child pornography--even though the images on a shared computer were not of children, and another individual told the administration that he was responsible, not the accused.