Prominent Mormon faces excommunication for backing same-sex marriage

The Mormon Church has moved to excommunicate the prominent Utah-based founder of an online forum for being critical of or doubting Mormons, charging him with apostasy for supporting same-sex marriage and the ordination of women and for questioning church teaching, reports the New York Times. John Dehlin is the founder of Mormon Stories Podcast (http://mormonstories.org)….

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Bygones and buycotts

A new direction for the Catholic Church? Pope Francis has shocked his flock and the world with his recent comments concerning “gays,” abortion and contraception. The pope, in an interview with the Jesuit religious magazine America, stated that the church has become obsessed with moral issues to the detriment of the great good that could…

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