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Contents:

• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON DATA TRACKG GAY PRITS, 'WASHGTON POST' REPORTS
• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• COLORADO CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO INTIFY PRITS G GAY DATG APPS
• WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE
• CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLNS ON DATG APP DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS

CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON DATA TRACKG GAY PRITS, 'WASHGTON POST' REPORTS

The se of the high-rankg Catholic cleric who rigned after allegedly beg tracked on the gay datg app Grdr quickly beme a Rorschach tt Wednday for Catholics already mired tensn over polics, theology and culture. He stepped down after a Catholic newsletter prented nference officials wh allegatns that cellphone data dited he had repeatedly ed Grdr and vised gay bars. Agast that ntent backdrop, Mike Lewis, founr of the Catholic news se Where Peter Is, said he felt torn about the Pillar’s publitn of Burrill’s alleged e of Grdr and viss to gay bars.

Catholic group spent lns on data trackg gay prits, 'Washgton Post' reports.

CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS ON APP DATA THAT TRACKED GAY PRITS

NPR's Steve Inskeep talk to Washgton Post reporter Michelle Boorste about the Catholic anizatn that bought mobile phone data to "out" prits who e gay datg apps. Your headle The Washgton Post says "Catholic Group Spent Millns On App Data That Tracked Gay Prits. " Why gay prits?

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GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

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COLORADO CATHOLIC GROUP SPENT LNS TO INTIFY PRITS G GAY DATG APPS

But most of the data appears to be om Grdr, and those faiar wh the project said the anizers’ foc was gay the First Thgs piece, Henricks said: “It’s not about straight or gay prits and semarians.

This person had heard about the data project before the Burrill news om another person who was approached by the nonprof who told the USCCB member the effort was maly foced on exposg gay prits.

” CNA had cled the man’s offer, the story said, “but there are reports this week that rmatn targetg allegedly active homosexual prits may bee public.

WISNS MIDDLE SCHOOL FEATUR 'THIS BOOK IS GAY' LIBRARY, STIRRG ONLE OUTRAGE

The rmatn both is mostly about Grdr, although the reports also say they have ed data om other gay datg apps Growlr, Scff and Jack’d, as well as datg and hookup apps let people create profil, search for other ers and send private msag back and forth.

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CATHOLIC GROUP SPENDS MILLNS ON DATG APP DATA TO OUT GAY PRITS

But profsnal advot for abe survivors say the problem isn’t gay prits, but stead a silence and simplifitn around the topics of celibacy and clergy sexualy that a mory of s allows secrets to Catholic Church teach that prits make promis of “celibacy, ” which falls unr the Sixth Commandment ( Catholicism the Sixth Commandment lls for permanent fily to your spoe) and lerally means they will not marry. That said, ’s “gaslightg” to ll stori foced on Grdr anti-gay, he said. When a sgle life is a few gay datg.