Population Growth Divides Climate Change Advocates
As religious groups advocate for urgent measures to address climate change in poor nations, the role of reproductive justice gets swept under the rug.
Before she felt her presence compromised the peacekeeping Sr Donna Quinn was escorting women past protesters at a women's health clinic.
Vatican’s Come-Hither to Anglicans: A Theological Scandal
While the Catholic Church is touting its warm welcome to conservative Anglicans, it’s also a simple union of those who reject gay and women’s ordination.
Art as Religion, Museum as Temple
For the Greeks, museums were sacred places dedicated to the muses. How is it that the Catholic Church got into the pagan shrine business?
Vatican Sexual Abuse and the High Priests of Hollywood?
As a defensive Vatican attempts to reclassify the pedophiles it has never ceased protecting, the centrist former editor of America magazine makes a flawed Polanski analogy.
Sex Comes For the Archbishop: Rembert Weakland’s Unflinching Memoir
Rembert Weakland is a Catholic progressive, a Benedictine monk, and a former Archbishop. His new memoir tells the story of a career marked by good work, pastoral advocacy, and the public scandal of a gay love life.
American Nuns Under the Vatican Microscope
The Vatican is investigating US Women religious, concerned that nuns are not in line on issues like same-sex love, women’s priestly ministry, and interreligious dialogue. But this time they’ve gone too far.
The Best and the Brightest of the Catholic Bad Girls
We picketed bishops and Popes, stole their dresses, stood up at the consecration of the Eucharist and said the words out loud. We are the bad girls of Catholic feminism, and we have stood up, over and over again, for women’s freedom.
Capitalism and the Anti-Modern Pope
The Pope’s anti-modern critiques should not be waved off so easily, as many allegedly life-promoting institutions actually foster death. There is much in it that a progressive secularist could agree with—apart from feminism and sexual ethics.
Vatican Unhappy with Obama’s Ambassador Picks
The Vatican has thus far given the thumbs down on the Obama admin’s first couple of candidates for ambassador. One wonders whether the U.S. routinely allows countries to decide who our ambassador should be?
No Zombie Jesus: The Vatican and Roger Haight
Roger Haight, a Jesuit priest and scholar, is teaching his last semester at Union Theological seminary this spring. In this interview, one of his students tells the story of Haight’s censure by the church, and explains why it matters.
Catholic-Jewish Tension and the Rededication of Catholic Holocaust Memorial
At a time when the Pope isn’t doing much to help Jewish-Catholic relations, the Boston Diocese reaches out.
Darwin in Rome: Burden of Diversity, Mystery of Time
Two current exhibits in Rome hint at the disturbing subtext of Darwin’s theories and the root of religious opposition to them.
Denying Communion to Prochoice Politicians
While some Bishops attempt to spread their views on the denial of communion beyond their fiefdoms, there's no theological demand for doing so.
Just Call Me Marie: When Women Become Priests
Marie Bouclin was excommunicated, or rather “self-excommunicated,” as the Catholic church puts it, for becoming a priest. But banishment from the church has not stopped her from living her vocation.
Hands in the Till: When Priests Steal
An awful lot of Catholic priests have been caught embezzling from their parishes lately. Is it a symptom of larger dysfunction in the Church?
An Israeli late show host's skit denying the virgin birth caused a furor among evangelicals and the Vatican. He had his reasons.
Men sin with sex, food, and laziness; women are vain, jealous, and filled with rage. But this has nothing to do with culture, of course.
Theologian Speaks Out: Obama For Pope
World-known theologian Hans Kung, ever a sharp thorn in the side of the Vatican, imagines what it would be like if Obama were in the Vatican instead of the White House.
RDBook: Feminist Theologian Defies the Vatican Agenda
It has been written of her that “in a truly just world, she would be Pope.” Rosemary Radford Ruether calls for an inclusive, even prophetic church in her latest book, Catholic Does Not Equal The Vatican.
Suspicion of the Modern Age: The Pope Regresses
Called to the carpet for the decision to reinstall controversial bishops, the Vatican has taken to doing what it does best: issuing public statements, coupled with obfuscation and outright denial.
The Portuguese Cardinal's warning manages to be a cocktail of Islamophobia, racism, sexism, xenophobia...
Doubt v. Predator: A Vatican II Parable
The film adaptation of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in the midst of Vatican II, pits the age-old male hierarchy against the secrecy of the recent molestation scandals. And the winner is...
Greening The Gays: New Papal Strategy
LBGT folks are like the rainforest, says Pope. Endangered by logging? Or just needing to be saved from themselves?
Playboy's Not So Virgin Mary
Is the Catholic Church upset at the depiction of the Virgin or just at its association with sex?