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Why Crux‘s Knights of Columbus “Partnership” is Problematic

By Kaya Oakes

…’s reputation for fierce honesty in its church coverage helped bolster the site, and Allen’s decades of experience, coupled with the skill of its writing staff, made the site an important voice. In the small hive that is Catholic journalism, Crux had a lot of buzz. What it did not have was a lot of money. The Globe’s strategy was to hopefully attract what editor Brian McGrory described as “big-ticket, Catholic-based advertisers.” But those adverti…

Lila Rose Targets Planned Parenthood with Lies

By Sarah Morice-Brubaker

…sing, or only truthful in a verrrry technical sense. Discussions of mental reservation can quickly become bogged down in technicalities, but imagine a latchkey kid saying “I’m sorry, my mom can’t come to the phone right now” instead of “Nope! I’m home alone and defenseless!” and you’ve got the basic idea. Not surprisingly, though, a lot of the people who are most particular about Catholic teaching—people otherwise likely to be sympathetic to Rose’…

In the Aftermath of the “Himalayan Tsunami”

By Luke Whitmore

…ven when the road was near a river. Kedarnath saw the building of new cell phone towers, a railway reservation office, helicopter landing pads, lodges with hot water available in the room. Prices soared. When a wave of water and rock crashed down upon Kedarnath last month it crashed down upon a site bursting at the seams—had this event happened twenty years ago deaths and destruction would have been far, far less. This disaster feels to me like th…

Controversial Mary Statue Weeps Because ‘We’re Killing This World’

By Joseph Laycock

…attracted hundreds of pilgrims, though it caused havoc for neighbors, city officials, and Church authorities. Miraculous images of the Virgin Mary, part of a tradition commonly known as “folk piety,” exist independently of any religious authority, and the fervor generated is sometimes too much for the Church—or anyone—to control. In this most recent case the attention eventually overwhelmed the statue’s owner, such that, on November 5, in order to…

‘No Room’ for Gays in Country that Worships God [Kenya] | Churches Fight to Keep Sexuality Out of Sex Ed [S. Korea] | Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…arry, writes Lane Sainty at BuzzFeed. Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is openly gay. Australia’s openly gay Ambassador to France Stephen Brady, who was awarded the Order of Australia in January for his long service to the country, offered his resignation this week after a flap over Brady’s partner of 32 years, Peter Stephens, but it was not accepted. According to the Herald-Sun, Ambassador Brady was waiting with Peter Stephens, his partner of 32 years, (pho…

Mormons Fight Marriage Equality in Mexico; Is Catholic Church Italy’s Anti-Gay NRA?; Nigerian Anglicans Cut Ties With UK Diocese; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ay people, viewing homosexuality as a sin and “alien to Ghanaian culture.” Australia: Christian lobby leader compares marriage equality movement to rise of Nazis Lyle Shelton, head of the Australian Christian Lobby, generated harsh criticism for comments comparing the marriage equality movement to the rise of the Nazis in Germany in the 1930s: Shelton warned: “Changing the definition of marriage to entrench motherless and fatherlessness in public…

Is LGBT-Muslim Clash Aiding Rise of Right in Europe?

By Peter Montgomery

…most identical wording, directing readers to the Coalition for Marriage website. “As survey forms begin arriving in letterboxes across Australia, it is important that we are fully equipped with information about the consequences of changing the definition of marriage and the impacts this will have on individuals, families, education and churches,” it reads. “The Coalition for Marriage has released a comprehensive guide to some of the key consequen…

Will International Criminal Court Bring Charges Against ISIS For Gender-Based Persecution?; And More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…istry, Robert Shine reviews recent comments by several Catholic leaders in Australia and New Zealand. that several Catholics in Australia and New Zealand. An excerpt: Giving an LGBT Catholic view from the pews is Benjamin Oh, an Australian gay man, who is a leader in the Global Network of Rainbow Catholics, as well as several Australian LGBT Catholic and interfaith groups. In a podcast interview with Eureka Street, Oh said that the experience of t…

Sacred Texting: When Religious Writ Gets Wired

By Rachel Wagner

…ability of cell phones to be used for impure activities, some Jewish cell-phone users have requested so-called “kosher” phones. The idea is to offer conservative Jews a phone that is free of “corrupting influences” of the sort that are already avoided by ultra-orthodox Jews through a ban on television and some radio. Reuters reported in February 2008 that Bezeq Israel Telecom launched a new “kosher” landline phone service, which will block calls…

Catholic Cardinal Slams Jesuit’s Bridge-Building Book; and More in Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…d people, more people, may die and those deaths will be on the head of the Australian government.” Mr Newhouse said Australia had a duty of care to those detained on Manus, which Canberra was ignoring. PNG’s conservative Christian culture also poses a threat to the gay men, outside of its laws, and Mr Taghinia said some of them would rather die in the centre than be forced into the community. For the man who fled Iran hoping to find safety in Aust…