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In conjunction with the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences conference, the University of California Press blog republished “ Why Do Some Countries Disapprove of Homosexuality? Money, Democracy and…

As the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) got underway last Monday (it runs from March 13-24), the US State Department announced that joining the official US delegation would be…

“Unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders—some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves—will continue to utter the slander that affects not just ordained gay men and seminarians, but every LGBTQ person in the Church.”

Churchgoers have all kinds of reasons for choosing to worship where they do and that’s a zone of privacy that should generally be respected.

Tuesday was not a happy day for religion writers like myself who explore the intersection of the Catholic Church and American politics. With Marco Rubio’s withdrawal from the GOP nomination race on…

With the flames still smoldering after Indiana’s bruising fight over the limits of “religious liberty,” the Catholic bishops are calling for calm, temperate discussion—in the culture war fight they…

Just a day before gay marriage in the U.S. received a significant boost from the Supreme Court, the much-anticipated Extraordinary Synod on the Family opened in Rome yesterday with Pope Francis…

Catholic Church: LGBT Catholics, Conservative Christians Jockey as Family Synod Approaches The Ways of Love: International Conference for a Pastoral Care with Homosexual and Transsexual People, took…

The slippery slope, not so slippery. Again.

In these days of political polarization much of the public discussion, particularly when it comes to religion, has shifted from what is said to how it is said. Forget about equality, the narrative goes, are you demanding it in a kind and civil tone? Maybe civility, unity and tolerance ain’t all they’re cracked up to be…