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What seems to be bothering conservatives most about Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation A moris Laetitia (“The Joy of Love”) isn’t that he suggests a poorly lit, somewhat twisting, buried-in-the…

Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family, leaves much to be desired—pun intended. If you are heterosexual, married, divorced, and remarried with an understanding…

Catholic Church: ‘Joy of Love’ Inspires Little Joy in LGBT Catholics Pope Francis released a long-awaited Apostolic Exhortation on love and the family, which comes after fierce infighting at two…

Over 100 students, alumni, faculty and community members protested Union Seminary’s plan to build a 40-story luxury condo high rise on our Harlem campus last week. Following the rally, students staged…

By now, you have probably heard about the latest dust-up between Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton. So far, the spat seems curiously one-sided. At the time of writing, Sanders had sort-of-kind-of…

I should say right away that this is no brief for the Sanders candidacy. I am sympathetic to both sides of the discussion. I myself am a realist. But I am also highly intrigued by the “unrealistic”…

Why the current cultural fetish for zombies? In 2014’s Hooked, Nir Eyal ventures a guess: “Perhaps technology’s unstoppable progress—ever more pervasive and persuasive—has grabbed us in a fearful…

If you happened to walk past San Francisco’s Parc 55 hotel this past weekend, you would have seen a most unusual sight: Two women bound on the sidewalk in chains as Satanists cover them in ashes and…

The Catholic Church has been trying desperately to suggest that the days of rampant sexual abuse of minors by priests and subsequent cover-ups by bishops are a thing of the past and that the church…

Donald Trump’s bizarre rise seems to be, as new research suggests, the result of an increasing American attraction to authoritarian leadership. I’d like to suggest that if “a desire for order and a…