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Anglo Catholic in Single Consecrated Life Vows. Benedictine oblate. Democratic Socialist.
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Indeed! Shepard was Episcopalian, and the ceremony was lead by Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly gay bishop ordained in the church. Former Sec. of Transportation Buttigieg (also Episcopalian) made a pilgrimage there in 2019.

Bishop Robinson talked to me about it at length in American Prophets.
Chapter Nine The Hard Work of Transformation Bishop Gene Robinson could just make out the music as he shuffled through one of the shadowy back passageways of Washington National Cathedral, his clerical vestments billowing behind him. The tune was slightly atypical for an Episcopalian service, and the choir, too, was slightly atypical, at least by the standards of a cathedral that regularly hosts funerals for presidents and senators. The song was "Beautiful City" from the musical God-spell, performed by the Gay Men's Chorus of Washington, DC. The rendition made perfect sense to the seventy-one-year-old Robinson, the first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church. As he paused in a tiny, hidden room that October 2018 morning, he hoped it would have meant something to his companion as well. In his hands Robinson cupped a vessel containing the ashes of Matthew Shepard, an openly gay University of Wyoming student who had been brutally beaten, tortured, and left to die by assailants in 1998. The twenty-one-year-old succumbed to his injuries six days after the attack. Widely remembered as a symbol of the harm done by antigay violence, Shepard is sometimes described as a martyr to the cause of LGBTQ rights. What many people didn't remember was that Shepard was also a devoted church-goer. An Episcopalian, to be exact. Robinson remembered. He thought about this fact as he listened to the practiced crooning of the altos echo through the cathedral. As the final notes began to fade, he took a breath and joined his
January 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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Pope Francis called plans by President Donald Trump for the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants a “disgrace,” signaling the return of the rocky relationship that defined the pontiff’s ties with the first Trump White House.

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Pope Francis calls Trump's mass deportation plan a "disgrace"
January 20, 2025 at 7:02 PM