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Pope Francis Has Painted Himself into a Corner on Women Deacons

By Mary E. Hunt

…jeans in hot water. Phyllis Zagano, a tireless researcher and lecturer who promotes the diaconate as an inside-the-box strategy for changing the Church, has parsed the various arguments and has recently published translations of some of the scholarly articles that ground this work. According to Dr. Zagano: “While ITC member Cipriano Vagaggini published research on the diaconate in an Italian journal in 1974, the ITC didn’t produce its own work on…

Ross Douthat on the Brink

By Haroon Moghul

…themselves would encourage. It is, if you will, a Munich moment. His own. Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where what was barely mentionable a few years ago can now be passed off as reasonable. Cologne Under Attack Over the New Year’s holiday, hundreds of women were abused, harassed, molested, and even raped, by roving bands of vicious young men, including Arab, North African, and even Syrian refugees among them. The attacks were outrageous, an…

Malawi Catholic Bishops Call For Enforcement of Sodomy Law; Ukrainian Thugs Disrupt Equality Festival Opposed by Orthodox Church; Indonesian Islamists Continue Rhetorical War on LGBTs; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…right to compromise with sin.” “We cannot and will not remain silent when promoted sin is corrupting the human soul and body,” the bishop wrote, saying it was especially inappropriate for the event to take place during Lent. The bishop also emphasized “that we do not bless our faithful to take part in any protests” and urged against temptation “to aggression or condemnation of others.” (English via Google translate) Event organizers released a st…

Catholic Church Bans Gay Film: This Week’s Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…ainst Homophobia’, the so-called Lunacek-report. The Commission’s text was welcomed by MEPs, but criticized for not going far enough. Although Member States do not need to give their consent to the list of actions, the support by 27 Member States indicates strong political support for progress on LGBTI equality. Ulrike Lunacek MEP, Co-President of the Intergroup on LGBTI Rights, reacted: “I strongly welcome the efforts by the Dutch Presidency to p…

A Story in Which the Gay Mormon Does Not Die

By Joanna Brooks

…iction between the policy and Jesus Christ’s unequivocal and unconditional welcome to children in the New Testament has left even conservative and moderate Church members doubtful, defensive, or confused. According to some reports, a good number of rank and file Mormons are simply choosing to disregard and outlast the policy. Saving Alex celebrates the spiritual capacity to outlast the darkest and most abusive elements of a religion. What helps? C…

Catholic Leaders Offer Criticism, Support to Boxer Pacquiao After Anti-Gay Comments…

By Peter Montgomery

…number of celebrated figures and other possible means. The objective is to promote and solidify homosexuality. Al-Azhar, in a previous statement, reiterated that the amoral and satanic propaganda launched by these various, vicious, parties has the purpose of destroying the human moral order respected by all religions and schools, because this moral order is in line with humanity’s innate quality (fitrah) created by Allah. Promoting homosexuality a…

Are the Girls Scouts Evil? And What About Thin Mints?

By Patricia Miller

…of Eastern Missouri posting a “statement of inclusivity” explaining how to welcome transgender children. Oh, and someone at the national organization tweeted favorably about the Supreme Court ruling legalizing same-sex marriage, as well as about Gloria Steinem and Betty Friedan. As to the big moral question here—can I buy Thin Mints?, the archbishop has treated the question with all the theological seriousness it deserves: Each person must act in…

Muslims for Trump

By Haroon Moghul

…ch them. Buzzfeed has published two very important articles this week. In “Welcome to America – Now Spy on Your Friends,” Talal Ansari and Siraj Datoo report on a disturbing trend that was, additionally, expressly prohibited by Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez nine years ago. But, of course, who cares if government breaks the law if the victims are just brown foreigners who, anyway, probably are guilty of something? For years now, many otherwise…

Civil Unions Battle Heats Up in Italy; Church Leaders in Malawi Defend Criminalization of Homosexuality; Report on LGBT Student Group Sparks Backlash in Indonesia; Global LGBT Recap

By Peter Montgomery

…an and gay people should be killed rather than jailed Malawi’s bishops are promoting misinformation when they claim first that homosexuality is “alien” to Malawians and second that foreign aid is being used to pressure donor nations to adopt LGBT rights. Misinformation is problematic, but doubly so when used to endorse, implicitly as well as explicitly, anti-LGBT prejudices that have and can lead to discrimination, imprisonment, and violence. Thou…

Krapp’s Last Tweet: The Rise (and Fall?) of Privilege in the Digital Economy

By Kevin Healey

…ledge where Baumgartner realized his own finitude.” His remarks come as a welcome contrast to the hubris of so many technology elites. Yet in the Stratos mission, as is too often the case, such humility was an unforeseen byproduct of personal and technical bravado. Rather than an afterthought, such humility should be present in all stages of development. When it comes to questions of design, implementation, regulation, and use, prudence is the na…