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There will be much debate surrounding today’s announcement of the normalization of relations between Cuba and the US, but I hope the voices of the Cuban and Cuban-American people will be heard. While…

Human Rights Day was celebrated this week, on December 10. Michael Adee celebrated with a post about the International Consultation on the Church and Homophobia, which was held in Jakarta, Indonesia…

Writing in Crux, associate editor John Allen cautions against the “overblown” narrative of “perceived resistance from conservative American bishops to Pope Francis’ progressive agenda,” despite the…

Gambia: President, Foreign Minister Portray Anti-Gay Persecution as Defense of Islam, Africa We have reported previously on Gambia’s viciously anti-gay president Yahya Jammeh. Buzzfeed’s Lester Feder…

Transgender Day of Remembrance was observed around the world on Thursday to memorialize victims of violence against transgender people. Organizers report that at least 226 trans people were murdered…

The Vatican held an interfaith conference this week on the promotion of the “traditional”—that is, non-LGBT or single-headed—family organized around the concept of “complementarity.” Complementarity…

As if further proof were required that challenges to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable Care Act are largely political stunts designed to push the “religious freedom” narrative, Priests for…

The U.S. bishops’ semi-annual meeting, which concluded in Baltimore on Thursday, was one giant raspberry to Pope Francis’ agenda. The meeting was heavy on the bishops’ favorite culture war themes, but…

A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA law school and NORC at the University of Chicago released last Friday found that residents in ninety percent of 52 surveyed countries have become more…

In September of 2006, His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent seismic shockwaves through the terrain of Catholic-Muslim relations. In the midst of a characteristically erudite lecture on the…