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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.

In the past few weeks, Catholic bishops have been in the media spotlight for their views and actions on marriage equality. One archbishop has even urged politicians supporting gay marriage be banned from taking Holy Communion.

Illinois Bishop Daniel Conlon condemned the state’s decision to stop funding Catholic adoption agencies because of their anti-gay policies. In a statement he defended the church’s views and said that the public may view Catholics as bigots.

New York’s same-sex marriage debate was the toughest test yet for U.S. Roman Catholic bishops and their position that only heterosexuals should wed.

U.S. Catholic bishops renewed their 2002 pledge to oust predator priests, while stopping short of rebuking the Philadelphia archdiocese over allegations by a recent grand jury that it kept 37 dangerous priests on the job.

A Catholic support group for GLBT people of faith says that the Church is using money contributed by its memberships to support anti-gay causes with secret donations.

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan was elected president Tuesday of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in a surprise win that underscored the bishops’ shift toward a more aggressive defense of orthodoxy.

A student’s essay on being a gay teen generated sympathy, condemnation, and calls for censorship when it appeared in the newspaper of a Minnesota Catholic School.

The head of the Phillippines’ Catholic bishops says that while excommunicating that coutnry’s president remains "a possibility," the church prefers to open "a dialogue" over the distribution of condoms.

If officials in the Catholic Church have their way, Seton Hall University in New Jersey will drop a key course to understanding one of modern society’s most hotly contested issues: a class on marriage equality.