#CLERGY
the state's deep-blue 30th congressional district — the seat previously filled by Jasmine Crockett, who campaigned for the state's U.S. Senate seat before losing to Talarico — a victory over his Republican opponent, Everett Jackson, is likely.
www.ncronline.org/news/faith-l...
Faith leaders on the ballot: 11 races to watch
The Democratic clergy running are making some races unexpectedly tight.
www.ncronline.org
October 14, 2026 at 7:02 PM
Call a Republican politician or a member of the Christian clergy. They’ll happily perform the genitalia checks, especially on children.
October 14, 2026 at 6:59 PM
I'd have thought a clergy man who adores us Brits would have easily had a wardrobe suitable 🤔

Surely you've at least got a waistcoat that's suitably Edwardian looking?
October 14, 2026 at 6:56 PM
A new report out of Massachusetts “provides for the first time a public accounting of the unimaginable harms afflicted on children,” said Mass AG Campbell. @aclum.bsky.social @massago.bsky.social @massgovernor.bsky.social @indivisiblemass.bsky.social

msmagazine.com/2026/10/14/c...
An ‘Old Boy’s Network’: Groundbreaking Report Exposes Decades of Catholic Clergy Abuse and Ongoing Protection of Abusers
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell released a 203-page report on Sept. 30 showing more than 270 Catholic priests abused at least 1,000 children over several decades in the dioceses of Fall...
msmagazine.com
October 14, 2026 at 6:51 PM
Shocked and disappointed regarding the position that Worcester Diocese has taken on this.
The bishop of Worcester didn’t get the memo on clergy sexual abuse. - The Boston Globe
Bishop Robert McManus of Worcester appears to have slept through the last quarter-century.
www.bostonglobe.com
October 14, 2026 at 6:43 PM
'Terrorized' battlegrounds turn into 'ghost towns' as ICE swarms early voting; organizers are mobilizing volunteers to accompany voters who may be worried about racial profiling or being falsely accused of being non-citizens. Clergy IN GA & NY acting as de-escalators www.rawstory.com/raw-investig...
'Terrorized' battlegrounds turn into 'ghost towns' as ICE swarms early voting
As early voting in the midterm elections gets underway, voting and immigrant rights organizers across the country are bracing for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement deployments at polling places...
www.rawstory.com
October 14, 2026 at 5:17 PM
There needs to be some kind of secular clergy. In the old days, you'd talk to cleric about these things free of charge, the only hitch being that it yolked a part of the human experience to the Child Molestation Factory. I wish you could have that relationship with your DnD dungeonmaster.
October 14, 2026 at 5:15 PM
May her memory be a blessing& a warning..
What an incredible woman. Rabbi means teacher.She embodies what a teacher should do.. teach people- share the light of knowledge& understanding!
We need more women in clergy, they bring a new perspective then their male counterpoints.
October 14, 2026 at 5:12 PM
A question on #Clergy tabled by Andrew Rosindell on 08-09-2026 has been answered by Marsha De Cordova. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-08/27884
October 14, 2026 at 4:40 PM
This long practicing atheist hope for his full recovery. If there were more clergy like this man, I might still be Catholic. From what I have seen and read, he is a strong and compassionate human being.
October 14, 2026 at 4:35 PM
So yeah I think that's a whole other axis to talk about here for sure—the decline of trust in clergy. There's simply been far too many fallen religious leaders to explain it away anymore as "a few bad apples."
October 14, 2026 at 4:12 PM
(RNS) — Archbishop Mitchell Thomas Rozanski argues President Donald Trump’s administration and a local sheriff are violating the religious rights of Catholic leaders and immigrant detainees by placing restrictions on clergy who visit a local detention center.

religionnews.com/2026/10/07/s...
For the first time, a Catholic archbishop sues Trump over access to immigrant detainees
(RNS) — The lawsuit accused the Department of Homeland Security and ICE of instituting policies that violate 'core constitutional values.'
religionnews.com
October 14, 2026 at 4:04 PM
A question on #Clergy #Recruitment tabled by Andrew Rosindell on 08-09-2026 has been answered by Marsha De Cordova. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-08/27882
October 14, 2026 at 3:40 PM
He accused them of religious & sexual atrocities: raping virgins & forcibly circumcising Christian boys, catching the boys’ blood in baptismal fonts & abusing the clergy w/their #queer passions. “They have already killed one bishop w/this nefarious sin.” #circumcision
October 14, 2026 at 3:29 PM
"I am asking for your courage to love your neighbor, to respect the dignity of every human being, and now, to vote." Bishop Mariann Budde

We've endured 2 years of masked raids, clergy arrested for praying, & 8,755 children detained.

Vote, and bring three people with you.
October 14, 2026 at 3:15 PM
A question on #Clergy #Training tabled by Andrew Rosindell on 08-09-2026 has been answered by Marsha De Cordova. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-08/27879
October 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A question on #Clergy #Training tabled by Andrew Rosindell on 08-09-2026 has been answered by Marsha De Cordova. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-08/27880
October 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A question on #Clergy #Training tabled by Andrew Rosindell on 08-09-2026 has been answered by Marsha De Cordova. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-09-08/27881
October 14, 2026 at 2:40 PM
A thing in here: Lotsa focus on CLOSE races with clergy/seminarians running as Dems, for obvious reasons.

But even if all of THOSE candidates lose, Dems will likely still send one additional* pastor to Congress this cycle: Rev. Freddie Haynes III, who runs a historically Black megachurch in Dallas.
October 14, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Always.

Also see clergy.
October 14, 2026 at 1:46 PM
I don't trust clergy any more than I trust ICE.
October 14, 2026 at 1:44 PM
Howbout he reads out the name of every child sexually abused by Catholic clergy, since 1950. Start with France ....

www.npr.org/2021/10/05/1...
About 333,000 children were abused within France's Catholic Church, a report finds
The report states that the abuses were committed by some 3,000 priests and other people involved in the church — wrongdoing that Catholic authorities covered up over decades.
www.npr.org
October 14, 2026 at 1:38 PM