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While Perkins has expressed interest in using his new position as an opportunity to support “religious freedom and the defense of religious minorities,” he might find that the USCIRF actually doesn’t require a significant change in focus from his own preoccupations with Christians’ rights.

Pray tell, can someone look in the mirror?

A rainbow-haloed baby Jesus makes an appearance.

It’s the perfect cover for Catholic institutional tolerance of sexual violence.

This list, in links and headlines, just skims the surface. But it gives a sense of what to watch for in 2013.

What inspired you to write If Nuns Ruled the World? Around 2009 I started spending a lot of time around nuns. I was finishing a thesis for my masters over at NYU and the topic was how Catholic nuns…

In the book, Gene Robinson tackles questions like why marriage is an issue for LGBT people, why straight people should support it and why civil unions, while they are a good first step, simply won’t be enough to satisfy the LGBT community.

But takes a hard line on promiscuity—otherwise known as “dating”?

We cannot trust the police, we cannot trust people on the subway, and Mayor Bloomberg fiddles.

This is not a story about Manti Te’o.