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After R.I. bishop’s tweet outrages LGBTQ community, a priest pleads with faithful not to leave the church


After R.I. bishop’s tweet outrages LGBTQ community, a priest pleads with faithful not to leave the church

Boston Globe

By Edward Fitzpatrick and Amanda Milkovits Globe Staff,Updated June 2, 2019, 9:44 p.m.


Joe Lazzerini, president of RI Pride, spoke at a rally in front of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.
Joe Lazzerini, president of RI Pride, spoke at a rally in front of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Providence.(Aram Boghosian for The Boston Globe)

PROVIDENCE — A weekend tweet by Providence Bishop Thomas J. Tobin warning his congregants not to support or attend LGBTQ Pride Month events prompted a national outcry and protests on Sunday in this city with a deep, if divided, Catholic tradition.
The reverberations reached into the morning services at St. Raymond’s Roman Catholic Church, where attendees, including Governor Gina Raimondo, passed beneath a wooden sign that reads “All Are Welcome In This Place.’’

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