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Family, welcome to another episode of Pod Save the People. I am D. R. Balanger.

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I'm Kaye Henderson. You can find me on Twitter or X or whatever you want to call it these days at

Henderson Kaya. This is De Ray at DIY on Twitter. Well we're gonna kick off

with this Pope Francis news Pope Francis does it again. We love

Pope Francis. He recently announced that he is encouraging Catholic priests to

bless gay weddings and this is part of a whole effort of his

to make the Catholic Church more accepting of LGBTQ people. I grew up Catholic but you know, grew up in DC Catholic, so we, you know, we black Catholic,

went to St. Augustine Church, 14th and V Street.

But you know, it's been a tough one. So I most recently go to Unitarian churches because the Catholic church has been the Catholic church. So it's been interesting to see these new developments. So, you know, and this comes after Pope Francis also called the attacks on civilians

and Palestine terrorism. So, you know, he's just one after the other being on the right

side of things, so really interesting to see and it would also be interesting to see the pushback.

And you know the other thing that happened, I don't know if we talked about this on the pot or not, but there was I think an archbishop out of Texas. The Pope fired

him basically. He's like, oh, you're going to say all these things and you know be so counter to our values and our

principles you're fired and this man if I remember correctly created this whole

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