Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh

As of 2023, the Diocese of Raleigh was divided into eight deaneries, with 80 parishes, 17 missions and four campus ministries. The Catholic population was approximately 500,000 served by 147 diocesan and religious order priests.{{Cite web |title=The Diocese |url=https://dioceseofraleigh.org/about/diocese |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Diocese of Raleigh |language=en}}

Before and during the American Revolutionary War, the Catholics in all of the British colonies in America were under the jurisdiction of the Apostolic Vicariate of the London District in England. Discrimination and persecution of Catholics in the North Carolina colony was common until it became a royal colony in 1729. Anyone wanting to hold public office had to sign an oath stating that Protestantism was the true Christian faith.{{Cite web |title=CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: North Carolina |url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11108a.htm |access-date=2017-07-07 |website=www.newadvent.org}} With the passage of the U.S. Constitution in 1789 after the American Revolution, Catholics were guaranteed freedom of worship throughout the new nation.

Pope Pius VI erected the Prefecture Apostolic of the United States in 1784, encompassing the entire United States. Five years later, he converted the prefecture into the Diocese of Baltimore.{{cite web |title=Our History |url=http://www.archbalt.org/our-history/index.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724200915/http://archbalt.org/our-history/index.cfm |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |access-date=2009-03-30 |publisher=Archdiocese of Baltimore}} The Diocese of Charleston was erected by Pope Pius VII on July 11, 1820. The new diocese included states of Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, all removed from the Archdiocese of Baltimore.{{Catholic-hierarchy|diocese|dchas|Diocese of Charleston|23 January 2015}}

During the early 19th century, Irish Catholic immigrants started entering North Carolina to work on the railroads and other construction projects. The first Catholic church in Raleigh was built in 1834.{{Cite web |title=Roman Catholic Church {{!}} NCpedia |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/roman-catholic-church |access-date=2023-04-12 |website=www.ncpedia.org}} By 1860, there were 350 Catholics living in seven North Carolina parishes.

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On March 3, 1868, Pope Pius IX erected the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina, removing all of North Carolina from the Diocese of Charleston. At that time, the pope appointed Reverend James Gibbons from the Archdiocese of Baltimore as the first vicar apostolic.

When Gibbons became vicar apostolic, North Carolina counted fewer than 700 Catholics. In his first four weeks in office, he traveled almost a thousand miles, visiting towns and mission stations and administering the sacraments. He also befriended many Protestants, who greatly outnumbered Catholics in the state, and preached at their churches. Gibbons made many converts to Catholicism.{{Cite web |last=Blog |first=McNamara's |date=2013-07-02 |title=Cardinal James Gibbons, Baltimore (1834-1921) |url=https://www.patheos.com/blogs/mcnamarasblog/2013/07/cardinal-james-gibbons-baltimore-1834-1921.html |access-date=2020-08-23 |website=McNamara's Blog |language=en}} In 1872, Pius IX appointed Gibbons as bishop of the Diocese of Richmond. The Vatican would not replace Gibbons in North Carolina for the next 11 years. In 1876, Benedictine monks from St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pennsylvania, arrived in Belmont to establish Belmont priory.

In 1881, Leo XIII appointed Henry P. Northrop as the new vicar apostolic of North Carolina. Two years later, the pope named Northrup to also serve as bishop of the Diocese of Charlotte. Northrup held both positions until 1888, when the Vatican allowed him to resign as vicar apostolic and only serve as bishop of Charleston.

In 1888, Leo XIII appointed Leo Michael Haid to replace Northrup as apostolic vicar of North Carolina, while allow Haid to remain as abbot of Belmont.[http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bhaid.html Page about Bishop Leo Michael Haid, O. S. B., on Catholic Hierarchy web site.] In 1910, Pope Pius X designated Belmont Abbey as a territorial abbey, giving it control of eight counties from the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina to Belmont Abbey. Haid now led two different Catholic jurisdictions in North Carolina. Haid died in 1924.Ibid.

On December 12, 1924, Pope Pius XI elevated the Apostolic Vicariate of North Carolina into the Diocese of Raleigh, making it the first Catholic diocese in North Carolina.{{cite web |title=History of the Diocese |url=http://charlottediocese.org/history |accessdate=2016-02-26 |publisher=Diocese of Raleigh}} The pope appointed Monsignor William Hafey of Baltimore as its first bishop. In 1937, Pius XI named Hafey as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Scranton. To replace Hafey as bishop of Raleigh, the pope appointed Monsignor Eugene J. McGuinness from the Archdiocese of Philadelphia that same year. In 1944, Pope Pius XII transferred seven counties from Belmont Abbey to the Diocese of Raleigh. Later in 1944, Pius XII named McGuiness as bishop of the Diocese of Oklahoma City.

Pius XII appointed Monsignor Vincent Waters from the Diocese of Richmond as the new bishop of Raleigh in 1944. Waters was accused by some of the diocesan clergy of holding on to idle church property worth millions of dollars while some parishes were in debt.{{cite news |date=1974-12-05 |title=Bishop Waters, Led Raleigh Diocese |work=The New York Times}} He also denied requests for the creation of a priests' senate; 20% of his priests sent a request to the Vatican asking for Waters' removal. In 1953, Waters ordered the racial desegregation of all Catholic churches and schools in the diocese.{{cite news |title=Bishop Vincent S. Waters (1904-1974) |work=North Carolina History Project |url=http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/225/entry}} He described racial segregation as a product of "darkness," and declared that "the time has come for it to end."{{cite magazine |date=1953-06-08 |title=Light in Newton Grove |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935960,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=TIME Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516024425/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,935960,00.html |archive-date=May 16, 2008}} He also said,

"I am not unmindful, as a Southerner, of the force of this virus of prejudice among some persons in the South, as well as in the North. I know, however, that there is a cure for this virus, and that is our faith."{{cite magazine |date=1953-06-29 |title=Cure for the Virus |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,889738,00.html |url-status=dead |magazine=TIME Magazine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081222123748/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,889738,00.html |archive-date=December 22, 2008}}

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In 1962, John XXIII elevated the Diocese of Atlanta to the Archdiocese of Atlanta and transferred the Diocese of Raleigh to it from the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Pope Paul VI in 1971 erected the Diocese of Charlotte. He removed Belmont Abbey and several counties from the Diocese of Raleigh.{{cite book| first=David| last=Hains| url=https://archive.org/details/voicesplacesofpe00davi| title=Voices and Places of the People of God| year=2006| publisher=Éditions du Signe| location=Strasbourg |page=[https://archive.org/details/voicesplacesofpe00davi/page/16 16]| isbn=978-2746817371}} This action created the current boundaries of the Diocese of Raleigh. In 1972, Waters expelled five Sisters of Providence nuns from the diocese for not wearing their religious habits while teaching.

After Waters died in 1974, Pope Paul VI appointed Auxiliary Bishop F. Joseph Gossman of Baltimore in 1975 to replace him. Gossman served as bishop in the diocese for 31 years. After his resignation in 2006, Pope Benedict XVI appointed Auxiliary Bishop Michael Burbidge of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia as the new bishop of Raleigh

Soon after taking office, Burbidge announced the building of a new cathedral for the diocese, to be named the Cathedral of the Holy Name of Jesus. Building preparations began in 2013.[http://www.dioceseofraleigh.org/news/view.aspx?id=1233 "Bishop Burbidge Announces Plans for New Cathedral Campus", Diocese of Raleigh website] (retrieved February 14, 2012) Groundbreaking for the new cathedral occurred in 2014, and the cathedral was completed in 2017.[http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/18/3207219/old-raleigh-orphanage-building.html "Cathedral to replace old Raleigh orphanage"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131218132154/http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/09/18/3207219/old-raleigh-orphanage-building.html|date=December 18, 2013}} (retrieved December 12, 2013) After the tornado outbreak of April 2011, which killed 24 people in North Carolina and other states, Burbidge urged Catholics to include victims and survivors in their Holy Week prayers.{{cite web |title=N. Carolina bishop calls for prayers and support after deadly tornadoes |url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/22381/n-carolina-bishop-calls-for-prayers-and-support-after-deadly-tornadoes |access-date=October 1, 2017 |website=Catholicnewsagency.com}} He directed the diocese's parishes and mission churches to hold a special collection for a disaster relief fund to be used to help survivors.{{cite web |title=North Carolina bishop asks prayers for tornado victims, survivors |url=http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2011/north-carolina-bishop-asks-prayers-for-tornado-victims-survivors.cfm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203165817/http://www.catholicnews.com/services/englishnews/2011/north-carolina-bishop-asks-prayers-for-tornado-victims-survivors.cfm |archive-date=February 3, 2017 |access-date=October 1, 2017 |website=Catholicnews.com}}

In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Burbidge as bishop of the Diocese of Arlington. He appointed Auxiliary Bishop Luis Zarama from the Archdiocese of Atlanta as the first Hispanic bishop of Raleigh. As of 2023, Zarama is the current bishop of the diocese.

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Holy Name of Jesus Cathedral is the mother church of the Diocese of Raleigh in Raleigh. It was designed by the architects O'Brien and Keane in the Romanesque Revival style. It contains a cruciform floor plan with a dome over the crossing. Its 42 stained glass windows and stations of the cross came from closed churches in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The Beyer Studio restored the windows before they were installed.{{cite web| title=New Cathedral Design – Inspired by You| url=http://www.holynamecathedralnc.org/new-cathedral-design-inspired-by-you/| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170702192415/http://www.holynamecathedralnc.org/new-cathedral-design-inspired-by-you/| url-status=usurped| archive-date=July 2, 2017| publisher=Diocese of Raleigh| access-date=2016-02-26}} Construction on the cathedral commenced in 2015 and it was dedicated in 2017.{{cite journal |title=Diocese breaks ground for new cathedral |url=http://www.dioceseofraleigh.org/news/view.aspx?id=1233 |publisher=Diocese of Raleigh |access-date=2016-02-26}}

Sacred Heart Cathedral in Raleigh served as the diocesan cathedral from 1924 to 2017. After the dedication of Holy Name of Jesus in 2017, Sacred Heart was relegated to a parish church.

The Basilica Shrine of St. Mary in Wilmington served as a cathedral for the Vicariate Apostolic of North Carolina until its suppression in 1924. The diocese sold the former Pro-Cathedral of St. Thomas the Apostle in Wilmington.

1. James Gibbons (1868–1877), appointed Bishop of Richmond and later Archbishop of Baltimore (elevated to Cardinal in 1886)
   - Stanislaus Mark Gross (1880–1881) - appointed, but never actually took possession
2. Henry Pinckney Northrop (1881–1888), appointed Bishop of Charleston
3. Leo Michael Haid, O.S.B. (1888–1924), concurrently abbot of Belmont Abbey

1. William J. Hafey (1925–1937), appointed Bishop of Scranton
2. Eugene J. McGuinness (1938–1944), appointed Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa
3. Vincent S. Waters (1945–1974)
4. Francis J. Gossman (1975–2006)
5. Michael Francis Burbidge (2006–2016), appointed Bishop of Arlington
6. Luis Rafael Zarama (2017–present)

• James Johnston Navagh (1952–1957), appointed Bishop of Ogdensburg and later Bishop of Paterson
• Charles Borromeo McLaughlin (1964–1968), appointed Bishop of Saint Petersburg
• George Edward Lynch (1970–1985)

• Joseph Lennox Federal, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Salt Lake in 1951
• Michael Joseph Begley, appointed Bishop of Charlotte in 1971
• Joseph Lawson Howze, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Natchez-Jackson in 1972
• Bernard Shlesinger, appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Atlanta in 2017

The Diocese of Raleigh currently administers two high schools. The diocese also includes an independent high school run by lay staff and a high school in the Cristo Rey Network

• Cardinal Gibbons High School – Raleigh
• John Paul II Catholic High School – Greenville
• St. Thomas More Academy – Raleigh (operated by laypeople)
• Cristo Rey Research Triangle High School – Durham

WSHP-LP was a community low-power FM radio station, licensed to the diocese, and broadcasting from Cary. It was operated by Divine Mercy Radio, Inc., a local lay apostolate organization. Due to its short antenna height and low power of just 37 watts, coverage was primarily limited to central and eastern Cary.

The initial application to construct the station was filed in November 2013,[https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/views/public/fmDraftCopy?displayType=html&appKey=52cbc0efc8f54ae6a268c1b6063ebeb7&id=52cbc0efc8f54ae6a268c1b6063ebeb7&goBack=N "Application For Construction Permit for a Low Power FM Broadcast Station"] BNPL-20131115ALX (FCC.gov) and plans for this station, along with WFNE-LP in Wake Forest, were announced in 2014.[http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/a-catholic-cathedral-rises-again-in-the-south "A Catholic Cathedral Rises Again in the South"] by Peter Jesserer Smith, June 10, 2014 (ncregister.com) The original application specified a transmitter site on the St. Michael the Archangel Parish grounds in Cary. This was later modified to a cellular telephone tower located west of central Cary.

WSHP-LP was first licensed in February 2018. Its original programming consisted of EWTN's English service, in addition to Ave Maria Radio and locally produced religious programs and announcements.[https://www.catholic540am.org/schedule.php "Divine Mercy Radio schedule"] (catholic540am.org) In July 2018, WSHP-LP temporarily suspended operations, as Divine Mercy prepared to transfer the EWTN programming to AM 540, WETC, which went live in February 2019. WSHP-LP resumed broadcasting in March 2019, now with Spanish language programs from EWTN's Radio Católica Mundial. The diocese surrendered WSHP-LP's license to the Federal Communications Commission in April 2023.[https://enterpriseefiling.fcc.gov/dataentry/public/tv/publicFacilityDetails.html?facilityId=197127 Facility details for Facility ID 197127 (WSHP-LP)] in the FCC Licensing and Management System

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In August 2018, the Diocese made arrangements to purchase WETC, AM 540 in Wendell. After a period when it remained off the air, WETC resumed regular operations on February 4, 2019

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In early February 2024, WPJL, AM 1240 in Raleigh was sold to Divine Mercy Radio. Its community of license was changed to Knightdale, and it began simulcasting WETC's programming.

In June 2002, in a meeting with officials of the Diocese of Scranton, a Pennsylvania man claimed to have been sexually assaulted by Edward J. Shoback, a Diocese of Raleigh priest. The alleged attacks took place in North Carolina in the 1970s when the victim was a seminarian. The diocese later removed the victim from seminary study there.{{cite web| url = http://www.bishop-accountability.org/PA_40th_GJ/2018_08_14_Interim_Redacted_PA_GJ_Report.pdf| title = 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury| website = Bishop Accountability| access-date = 16 February 2019}} When informed of the allegation, Shoback denied it. In 2004, two men reported to the Diocese of Raleigh that they had been sexually molested as teenagers by Shoback after he gave them liquor and showed them pornography. Shoback admitted to the first of these new allegations and was removed from ministry.{{Cite web |title=Edward J. Shoback |url=https://pennsylvaniasexabuselawyers.com/catholic-priests/edward-j-shoback/ |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=Lawyers for Victims of Child Sexual Abuse |language=en-US}}

In 2007, the diocese paid almost $2 million to settle sexual misconduct claims made by 37 victims against at least 15 priests since the 1950s.{{cite news| agency= Associated Press| title = Raleigh diocese paid $1.2 million to settle abuse claims in 2006| date = 5 January 2007}} By September 2020, settlements paid by the diocese in sexual misconduct cases since 1950 totaled $2,717,750.[https://dioceseofraleigh.org/child-and-youth-protection/list-clergy-actionable-allegations-sexual-abuse-minors List of Clergy with Actionable Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors] Roman Catholic Diocese of Raleigh, Accessed September 18, 2020

In July 2015, the North Carolina Court of Appeals ruled to allow the advancement to trial of a lawsuit against the diocese and Bishop Burbidge over an allegation of child sexual abuse by Reverend Edgar Sepulveda.{{cite web| url = http://www.snapnetwork.org/nc_victims_applaud_new_ruling_in_pedophile_priest_case| title = NC--Victims applaud new ruling in pedophile priest case| date = 7 July 2015| website = Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests| access-date = 16 February 2019}} The alleged victim was sixteen-year-old boy who claimed being abused by Sepulveda when he was a priest of the Santa Teresa del Niño Jesús Mission in Beulaville, North Carolina.{{cite web |date=7 July 2015 |title=NC Appeals Court allows priest sex abuse lawsuit to proceed |url=https://www.wxii12.com/article/nc-appeals-court-allows-priest-sex-abuse-lawsuit-to-proceed/2060051 |access-date=16 February 2019 |website=WXII 12 News |publisher=Hearst Television}} Sepulveda denied all the accusations. He had been arrested in 2010 and charged with second-degree sexual offense and sexual battery, but the criminal charges were dropped by Brunswick County prosecutors, citing a lack of evidence. At that time, Burbidge had put Sepulveda on administrative leave, prohibiting him from visiting any parish or Catholic school, and removed him from residence on church grounds.{{cite web |last=Biesecker |first=Michael |date=7 July 2015 |title=NC Appeals Court allows priest sex abuse lawsuit to proceed |url=https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/7/nc-appeals-court-allows-priest-sex-abuse-lawsuit-t/ |access-date=16 February 2019 |website=The Washington Times |publisher=Larry Beasley}}

Lawyers for the victims claimed that Burbridge had been negligent and had inflicted further emotional distress on the victim by refusing to order Sepulveda to undergo testing for sexually transmitted diseases and then share results with the victim's family.{{cite web |date=7 July 2015 |title=DOE 200 v. DIOCESE OF RALEIGH |url=https://caselaw.findlaw.com/nc-court-of-appeals/1707009.html |access-date=16 February 2019 |website=Find Law}} Lawyers for the diocese and Burbridge denied that he or other church officials had any knowledge of Sepulveda's alleged actions.{{cite web |date=8 July 2015 |title=Court allows priest sex abuse lawsuit to proceed |url=https://www.journalnow.com/court-allows-priest-sex-abuse-lawsuit-to-proceed/article_c836e0c0-6f2b-5ca6-8195-6c0b46437900.html |access-date=16 February 2019 |website=Winston-Salem Journal |publisher=Berkshire Hathaway}} The court allowed the lawsuit to proceed, rejected arguments made by defense lawyers that it violated the separation of church and state in the United States Constitution.

In August 2018. a grand jury report regarding sexual abuse in the Catholic Church in Pennsylvania named two former North Carolina priests in the list of 301 priests with credible accusations of sexual abuse.{{cite web| url = https://www.wwaytv3.com/2018/08/16/2-former-nc-priests-named-in-child-sex-abuse-report/| title = 2 FORMER NC PRIESTS NAMED IN CHILD SEX ABUSE REPORT| date = 16 August 2018| website = WWAY News| publisher = Morris Multimedia| access-date = 16 February 2019}} Reverend William Presley and Reverend Robert Spangenberg both worked in the diocese in the 1970s and 1980s. Presley, whom the report describes as a "violent predator who insinuated himself into the lives of families for the purpose of getting close enough to their children that he could abuse them",[https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article216690855.html Former NC priest is named in grand jury report on Catholic sex abuse] had served at a parish in Kinston, North Carolina, from 1981 until 1983. Spangenberg had served at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Parish in Newton Grove, North Carolina, and Immaculate Conception Catholic Parish in Clinton, North Carolina, from 1977 until 1979.{{cite web| url = https://www.wral.com/two-former-nc-priests-named-in-pennsylvania-clergy-sex-abuse-report/17773811/| title = Two former NC priests named in Pennsylvania clergy sex abuse report| date = 16 August 2018| website = WRAL News| publisher = Capitol Broadcasting Company| access-date = 16 February 2019}}{{cite web| url = https://www.cbs17.com/news/local-news/2-priests-formerly-with-catholic-diocese-of-raleigh-named-in-child-sex-abuse-report/1375734531| title = 2 priests formerly with Catholic Diocese of Raleigh named in child sex abuse report| date = 16 August 2018| website = CBS17| publisher = CBS Corporation| access-date = 16 February 2019}}

By May 2020, 29 clergy were listed on the diocese list of clergy who had been"credibly accused" of committing acts of sex abuse.[https://dioceseofraleigh.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/List-of-Clergy-March-31-2021-English.pdf CList of Clergy with Actionable Allegations of Sexual Abuse of Minors], Accessed May 1, 2021 Those listed either had claims of abuse against them while serving in the diocese or had reports of abuse elsewhere.

In April 2024 Patrick Tuttle, a Franciscan friar who served as an associate pastor and middle school teacher at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church and Immaculata Catholic School in Durham from 1996 until at least 2009, was removed from public ministry after allegations of sexual misconduct.{{cite news |last= Shaffer|first= Josh|date= April 17, 2024|title= Former Durham Franciscan friar barred from ministry after sexual misconduct investigation|url= https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article287743815.html|work= The News & Observer|location= Raleigh, North Carolina|access-date= April 23, 2024}}

In 2009, the Diocese of Raleigh established a chapter of Courage International, a Catholic apostolate that ministered to gay and lesbian people and considered homosexuality to be a treatable condition.{{cite news |last= Shimron|first= Yonat|date= February 20, 2009|title= Diocese begins gay ministry|url= https://www.columbiatribune.com/story/lifestyle/around-town/2009/02/21/diocese-begins-gay-ministry/21568761007/|work= Columbiua Daily Tribune|location= Columbia, Missouri|access-date= April 27, 2023}} The ministry's executive director stated that Courage's goal was to "assist men and women who are afflicted with the thorn of same-sex attraction." Courage International encouraged celibacy among gay men and women, and used a twelve-step program for treatment that was similar to that of Alcoholics Anonymous.

In May 2012, the diocese mailed postcards to Catholic voters promoting North Carolina Amendment 1, a proposed amendment to the North Carolina Constitution to ban same sex marriage.{{cite news |last= O'Neill|first= Patrick|date= May 4, 2012|title= N. Carolina dioceses mail postcards supporting 'traditional marriage'|url= https://www.ncronline.org/news/politics/n-carolina-dioceses-mail-postcards-supporting-traditional-marriage|work= National Catholic Reporter|location= Kansas City, Missouri|access-date= April 27, 2023}} The postcards, titled Why Traditional Marriage Matters, featured photos of Bishop Burbidge and Bishop Jugis of Charlotte with the text "On May 8, vote FOR marriage". The postcard also contained a passage from the Gospel of Matthew, stating "From the beginning the Creator made them male and female and said: for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become flesh." The diocese contributed $50,000 to support the amendment.{{cite web |url= https://religiondispatches.org/religious-groups-dioceses-churches-fund-anti-gay-initiative-in-north-carolina/|title= Religious Groups, Dioceses, Churches Fund Anti-Gay Initiative In North Carolina|last= Montgomery|first= Peter|date= May 1, 2012|website= Religion Dispatches|publisher= University of Southern California|access-date= April 27, 2023}} The amendment passed. In 2013, the diocese left the ecumenical North Carolina Council of Churches after the council spoke out against North Carolina Amendment 1.{{cite web |url= https://www.christiancentury.org/article/2013-10/north-carolina-catholics-leave-council-churches|title= North Carolina Catholics leave council of churches|last= Greene|first= Amanda|date= October 30, 2013|website= The Christian Century|publisher = Peter W. Marty |access-date= April 27, 2023}}

In 2016, Burbidge publicly supported the Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act, a bathroom bill in the state legislature that would have required people to use bathrooms that corresponded with the sex listed on their birth certificates.{{cite web |url= https://www.newwaysministry.org/2016/04/12/bishops-offer-qualified-support-for-anti-lgbt-laws/|title= Bishops Offer Qualified Support for Anti-LGBT Laws|last= Shine|first= Robert|date= April 12, 2016|website= New Ways Ministry|access-date= April 27, 2023}}

In 2019, Reverend Christopher Van Height of Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Durham, barred City Councilors Vernetta Alston and Jillian Johnson from speaking at a Black History Month event at the church school. This was because Alston and Johnson were both members of the LGBTQ+ community.{{Cite web|url=https://indyweek.com/api/content/a1a7ed98-2bb5-11e9-a97d-120e7ad5cf50/|title=Durham City Council Member Dis-Invited from Black History Month Program Amid Protests|first=Sarah|last=Willets|date=February 8, 2019|website=INDY Week}}{{dead link|date=April 2023}} VanHeight's decision was supported by the diocese.{{cite web|url=https://www.wral.com/spurned-by-catholic-school-gay-durham-councilwoman-sees-teaching-moment/18177029/|title=Spurned by Catholic school, gay Durham councilwoman sees teaching moment|date=7 February 2019|access-date=13 September 2022|publisher=WRAL-TV|first1=Ken|last1=Smith|first2=Sarah|last2=Krueger|location=Durham, NC}}

In 2022, Immaculata Catholic School prohibited a student's family from hiring a transgender woman to serve as their child's in-school aide.{{Cite web|url=https://indyweek.com/api/content/d8589c7a-f6ff-11ec-8f54-12274efc5439/|title=Durham's Immaculata Catholic School Denies Job to Transgender Parishioner|first=Lena|last=Geller|date=June 29, 2022|website=INDY Week}}{{dead link|date=April 2023}}{{cite web|url=https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/charlotte/news/2022/08/02/transgender-woman-says-she-s-not-allowed-to-work-at-durham-catholic-school|title=Transgender woman says she's not allowed to work at Durham Catholic school|publisher=Spectrum News 1 North Carolina|date=2 August 2022|access-date=13 September 2022|last=Rose|first=Amanda}}

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