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    Illinois Bishop Decrees No Communion, Funeral Rites For Same-Sex Spouses

    Bishop Thomas Paprocki is telling priests in his diocese not to offer sacraments to people in same-sex marriages. A Catholic LGBT group calls the decree "mean-spirited and unchristian in the extreme."
    by Laurel Wamsley Jun 23, 2017 3 minutes

    A Catholic bishop has instructed priests in his central Illinois diocese to deny communion, last rites and funeral rites to people in same-sex marriages – unless they repent.

    In the decree he sent to priests, deacons, seminarians and staff in his Springfield diocese last week, Bishop Thomas Paprocki sets forth a set of norms on same-sex marriage and related pastoral issues that he says are the policy of the diocese.

    Paprocki's decree bans priests and parish staff from performing same-sex marriages or allowing same-sex weddings or

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