Good Catholics were supposed to embrace gay people but not their gayness. That’s hardly the arithmetic of equality.

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Church bells tolled in mourning. Well-wishers flocked into pews. Tributes to Pope Francis poured in from around the world on ...

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Pope Francis, the first Latin-American pontiff, renowned for his outspoken advocacy for the poor and insistence on a more ...

The leader of the world’s 1 billion Roman Catholics addressed past scandals and embraced migrants, the poor and gay and lesbian faithful. Some wished he’d gone further.

Ask anybody who has ever served on the Fairbanks City Council, and they will tell you that it can be a taxing effort to keep our city up and running.

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