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United Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer, right, hugs the Rev. David Wesley Brown after a news conference Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia. Schaefer, who presided over his son's same-sex wedding ceremony and vowed to perform other gay marriages if asked, can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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United Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer, right, hugs the Rev. David Wesley Brown after a news conference Tuesday, June 24, 2014, at First United Methodist Church of Germantown in Philadelphia. Schaefer, who presided over his son's same-sex wedding ceremony and vowed to perform other gay marriages if asked, can return to the pulpit after a United Methodist Church appeals panel on Tuesday overturned a decision to defrock him. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
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Pope Francis told members of the Italian Mafia that they were officially excommunicated from the Catholic Church, according to news reports. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)
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A dormitory at Saint Paul's College is photographed in Lawrenceville, Va., Thursday, June 19, 2014. Federal officials held a town meeting to give local residents details on a proposed plan to house immigrant children at the closed school. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)
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Area resident John Zubrot of Ebony, Virginia, asks a question during a presentation by federal officials involved in the placement of immigrant children at the abandoned Saint Paul's College in Lawrenceville. (associated press)
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FILE - In an Oct. 7, 1995, file photo, Pope John Paul II prays while celebrating Mass in New York's Central Park. Pope John Paul II will be made a saint together with the late Pope John XXIII during an historic double canonization at the Vatican on Sunday, April 27, 2014. (AP Photo/Stephan Savoia, File)
