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Brazil priest supporting gays excommunicated

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A Catholic priest in southeastern Brazil was excommunicated on April 29 after publicly resigning from his duties to protest against the church’s opposition to homosexuality. The diocese of Sao Paolo said in a statement Father Roberto Francisco Daniel can no longer celebrate the divine rite. The 48-year-old priest, who renounced his church duties over the weekend, was accused of “heresy” and “schism” by the church hierarchy in the world’s biggest Catholic country, which will welcome Pope Francis in late July during a major youth festival in Rio de Janeiro.

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