Female Deacons: Pope Francis Walks It Back, Women Clergy Weigh In
The recent flurry of headlines over the possibility of women deacons in the Catholic church may…
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Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic
On March 14 of this year, the Boston Globe announced it would be pulling the plug…
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American Sin: Why Pope Francis’ Mercy is Not Our Mercy
In The Name of God Is Mercy , Pope Francis’ new book, the pontiff does more riffing…
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#OpenTheseDoors: A Movement to Turn New York’s Closed Churches into Shelters
When the archdiocese of New York announced in 2014 that it would begin closing parishes…
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Will Pope’s African Tour Change Attitudes on Divorce and LGBTQ Among African Catholics?
Today, Pope Francis arrives in Nairobi, Kenya. After two days in Kenya, he will travel to…
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Out of Options: Christians’ Losing Battle Over Equality
In the months since the Supreme Court’s decision to make marriage equality the law, conservative…
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“Own Your Heresy”: The Argument Over Who Gets to Do Public Theology Takes a Sharp Turn
The topic of Ross Douthat’s Erasmus Lecture for First Things magazine this week was “The Crisis of Conservative Catholicism,”…
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It doesn’t take more than a glance at the recent Reuters report to see that…
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Why the Church is Struggling to Hold Onto Millennial Catholics
A new survey from Catholics for Choice on the opinions of Catholic millennials as regards doctrinal issues…
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The Sacred and the Dead: The Trouble with Sugar Magnolia
My childhood home was equidistant between two of the Grateful Dead’s regular Bay Area venues:…
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