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Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., who is running for president, condemned the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to celebrate the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a group of drag performers who mock Christianity, and Roman Catholicism in particular, by dressing up as sexualized nuns and even sexualizing Jesus himself. “We should all be incredibly disappointed in the Los…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: A health sharing group is urging the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops to address reports that Catholic hospitals are performing hormonal and surgical sex-change operations on young people. Solidarity HealthShare's June 14 letter asks the bishops "to vote to revise their Religious and Ethical Directives for Catholic Health Care…

Catholic bishops in the United States are calling for prayers and acts of reparation ahead of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ "Pride Night" featuring an anti-Catholic group of drag performers posing as religious sisters. Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who is the president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops and heads the Archdiocese for the Military…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—A Virginia hair salon fired a Christian stylist over a Facebook post criticizing the streaming movie service Disney+. "My Facebook is my page," Sidney York, the fired stylist, told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday. "I understand it’s a touchy subject and people may be offended over it, but it…

Former Vice President Mike Pence is accusing the Los Angeles Dodgers of “welcoming anti-Catholic bigots” to its stadium with “open arms.” “Having been raised in a Catholic family, the Dodgers’ decision to invite the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a hateful group that blatantly mocks Catholicism, to their event next month is deeply offensive,” Pence said…

Blake Treinen is the latest Dodgers player to denounce the invitation, then disinvitation, then invitation again of prominent anti-Catholic hate group the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence at the team’s Pride Night.  “The debacle with Bud Light and Target should be a warning to companies and professional sports to stay true to their brand and leave…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL: An athletic organization beloved by legendary Los Angeles Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully is condemning the Dodgers' decision to promote an anti-Catholic group posing as transgender and queer nuns. Catholic Athletes for Christ launched in 2006 to serve athletes in the practice of their faith and to help share the gospel…

As the Los Angeles Dodgers prepare “to host sports’ largest Pride Night of the year” on June 16, the team has faced severe pushback for its announcement of an annual “Community Hero Award” recipient. Among the list of honorees, the team included the controversial Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a “queer and trans nuns” activist group that claims to…

The FBI appears, at least briefly, to have joined the Southern Poverty Law Center's attempt to demonize Roman Catholics who follow the church's teachings on marriage and who celebrate the Latin Mass, in a move one traditional Catholic leader calls both embarrassing and foreboding. Michael J. Matt, editor of The Remnant newspaper and producer of…

FIRST ON THE DAILY SIGNAL—Two parishioners at a Latin Mass Catholic church in rural Northern Virginia say they witnessed suspicious activity from what looked like FBI vehicles in February, a month after the FBI’s Richmond office published a now-rescinded internal memo focused on “radical-traditional Catholics.” The FBI’s Washington, D.C., office, which monitors the church’s area,…

The House Judiciary Committee released internal FBI documents on Monday that show a plan to establish sources in local Catholic parishes to combat alleged potential violent extremism from “radical-traditional Catholics.” The committee also issued a subpoena to compel the bureau’s cooperation during its investigation into the FBI’s actions. Following the January leak of an FBI…

Transgender activists aim to police the speech of Americans—particularly when it comes to preferred pronouns, but some of them do not extend the Almighty the same courtesy. Charlotte Clymer, a biological male who identifies as a transgender woman, recently took to MSNBC to claim that conservatives “cynically weaponize” and “exploit” the deaths of children by…

This article has been corrected and a reference to Kate Ross has been removed. Ross says she was not present at or around the time of the event. Protesters failed to prevent or disrupt a Christian story hour in a Washington, D.C., public library on Wednesday.    The story hour at the library in the Cleveland…