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The Journalist and the Bishops: CNS Editor Fired For Tweeting Opposition to LGBT Discrimination

By Patricia Miller

…-transgender bathroom policies as “harmful and deceptive gender ideology.” San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone joked last year that he was sure more transgender identities “will be invented as time goes on” and said the acceptance of “gender ideology” threatens not only the faith, but the very foundation of human society, predicting “a reversion to the paganism of old, but with unique, postmodern variations on its themes, such as the pra…

Female Deacons: Pope Francis Walks It Back, Women Clergy Weigh In

By Kaya Oakes

…f a Roman Catholic woman. Last year, Father Jack McClure was sanctioned by San Francisco Archbishop Cordelione and prevented from saying mass for appearing at a women’s ordination gathering. Any Roman Catholic woman who pursues ordination in an independent Catholic Church (not considered to be in communion with Roman Catholic Church) is considered automatically excommunicated for breaking church law; members of the Roman Catholic Women Priests, wh…

Gimme Shelter: Queer Space Is Sanctuary

By Kaya Oakes

…“Mommy I love you. He’s coming. I’m going to die.” In the 1980s queers in San Francisco started to die. In the Castro, Most Holy Redeemer, one of the only Catholic churches in America to explicitly reach out to LGBTQ Catholics, became the site of near-daily funerals for AIDS victims. People gathered there to grieve, and the grief was nonstop. Fr. Anthony McGuire, pastor at the time, told Jesuit Fr. Donal Godfrey that “it was harrowing. I used to…

U.S. Bishops’ Silence on Guns and Gays

By Patricia Miller

…. We must stand for that. By comparison, in his statement on the massacre, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone revealed the dark heart of what so many in the church’s leadership believe to be the truth about LGTB individuals: …we stand in solidarity with all those affected by this atrocity, regardless of race, religion, or personal lifestyle. That’s right, it’s too bad your “personal lifestyle” got you killed. Just as the Catholic Church…

Indonesia Allows Abusive Sharia Laws to Stand; Kenyan Priest Joins Challenge to Anti-LGBT Laws; Dominican Republic Bishop Slams ‘Gender Ideology’ at OAS; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

Pride celebrations continued this weekend, with major events in San Francisco, New York, and London, where two police officers were engaged, generating both support and religious denunciations. In New York, one of the grand marshals for the pride march was Subhi Nahas, a “gay Syrian refugee who’s faced threats from both ISIS and President Bashar al-Assad’s regime,” reports the New York Post. In America, a magazine published by Jesuits in the US,…

Sit Down and Shut Up: Pulling Mindfulness Up By Its (Buddhist) Roots

By Max Zahn

…t are called Buddhism’s three jewels; the other two are the Buddha and the sangha, or monastic community. As such, mindfulness makes up a small segment of the immense ethical, philosophical, institutional and ritual latticework that constitutes the totality of Buddhist practices, which themselves vary widely from place to place and era to era. The modern emphasis on mindfulness and meditation is a fairly recent phenomenon. Historian Eric Braun not…

‘Iconoclash’ of Civilizations: Missives from the Image Wars

By Eric M. Gurevitch

…sus as the Man of Sorrows in front of the bewildered Pope. The Nahua noble Diego de Alvarado Huanitzin fashioned this breathtaking version of the scene for Pope Paul III, combining the Aztec style of amanteca featherwork with the Catholic narrative. Jesus is surrounded by the Arma Christi, which serve as pictograms, stylized representations that convey the larger meaning of his suffering. To his right a Jew, a figure no Aztec person could have enc…

Pope Francis meets with bishop who blessed gay couple; Proposed NGO law in Uganda threatens LGBT groups, civil society; Interfaith sexuality organizing in Indonesia; global LGBT recap

By Peter Montgomery

…nssexual Catholics are ineligible. Indonesia: ‘When sexuality meets faith’ Diego García Rodríguez, writing in the current issue of Inside Indonesia, speaks with members of the Youth Interfaith Forum on Sexuality (YIFOS), which was created in the wake of two incidents in 2010. In one, a group of conservative Muslims occupied the hotel where an international LBGTI conference was scheduled, and in the second, conservative Muslims attacked an internat…

Soccer and the Sublime in the Shadow of Apartheid

By Preston Davis

…e platform to see a world less so. It is a human event that allows for any number of sins from the calendar of human frailty. You can bask in the craft of Leonel Messi, who manipulates the ball like a marionette to puppet; but you cannot be free of the ego of coach, villain, and Saint, Diego Maradona, pacing the sideline, looking for an opportunity to abscond with the limelight. The glaring example for this year’s tournament comes in the form of a…

Barna Plays God, School Board Boot Camp, and the Birth of the ‘SAGECON’: Day 3

By PRA Staff

…olitics of today’s GOP, and cites J.D. Vance, Blake Masters, Kari Lake and Diego Morales as praiseworthy GOP candidates in the upcoming midterm elections (despite the supposedly nonpartisan nature of the Pray Vote Stand summit). Panelists encourage the audience to “connect with local Hispanic communities and their churches,” and to celebrate that “we are consolidating the Hispanic conservative movement—whether Anglos or African Americans, we need…