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Sex and the Seminary: Wake Up and Smell the Incense

By Mary E. Hunt

…g men (I was the only women in the class and I did not receive the warmest welcome on record) how to handle confessions. The priest professor role-played a variety of penitents while the students took turns acting the part of the priest. One young man decomposed in the chair when the penitent confessed her alleged sin of oral sex. (Note the priest could not bring himself to act out a man who engaged in oral sex.) When pressed for a response, the y…

Meeting on the Bridge: Fr. James Martin’s Ministry to LGBT Catholics Becomes a Book

By Kaya Oakes

…ou can’t even use the word LGBT. They’ll use something like “Spectrum” or “Welcome Ministry.” It has to be so coded that it doesn’t ruffle any feathers, and that’s not the case for women. And that’s very sad. To me, LGBT people are sometimes treated like lepers. One of the things I’ve learned in this informal ministry is the unbelievable things priests, sisters, brothers and lay associates will say to LGBT Catholics. It’s just horrifying. One of t…

Did Pope Francis Win, Lose or Draw at the Family Synod?

By Patricia Miller

…ting for Pope Francis to change the Catholic Church. The unexpectedly warm welcome given to gay Catholics in the mid-synod report raised hopes that a major change in the church’s attitude, if not its teaching, was just around the corner. The fact that those changes were scrapped—along with language acknowledging value in “irregular” partnerships and a possible opening for divorced Catholics to receive communion—in the final document shouldn’t come…

The Pope, the GOP, and the March for Life

By Sarah Posner

…urse, has set the hair aflame. Conservatives are pouting that they aren’t “welcome” in New York; Sean Hannity even had a tantrum about moving elsewhere. Cardinal Timothy Dolan writes a litany of St. Patrick’s activities “respecting life,” asking at the end, “does any of this seem ‘extremist’ to you?” The March for Life is still a big deal. One of the nation’s two major parties supports it, and will later in the week that party will consider whethe…

Loving Your Enemies, Sean Hannity Style (Updated with Video)

By Candace Chellew-Hodge

…5:44. Here the word “agapao” means, according to Strong’s Concordance, “to welcome, to entertain, to be fond of, to love dearly.” Nothing there about loving someone in the sense that you want to destroy them. So, no, Hannity does not “love” his enemy – he clearly hates his enemy and yet will proclaim that he is a Christian. But, Hannity doesn’t stop digging his own religious grave right there. He continues: HANNITY: I want them to see — they want…

The Devil in Dover

By Lauri Lebo

…ate title would you give the book? I often joked that the title should be “Welcome to Insane World” because none of the pieces fit neatly together: “Darwinist”-spouting teachers were preachers’ kids; the “atheist” plaintiffs taught Sunday school; the “activist” judge was a Bush-appointed Republican; and the people labeled “liars” were willing to go to jail for the truth. How do you feel about the cover? We had originally chosen a different photogr…

Why Even Progressive Christianity Must Own Its Complicity in Anti-LGBT Violence

By Layton E. Williams

…ch members present remarked that such a public statement of solidarity and welcome had never happened before—and wouldn’t have. Something had changed for us at Fourth Presbyterian Church—we realized we needed to own the affirmation we believed in. It’s awful that it took an act of horrific violence to inspire such a shift, but I’m hopeful for what else could follow both in my own congregation and in the church as a whole. For the rest of Pride mon…

Pagan Martyrs, Murderous Monks: Agora Hits US Shores

By Nathan Schneider

…f Hypatia’s inconvenient celibacy—is also Agora’s best hope. It comes as a welcome contrast, for instance, to HBO’s Rome, which turns figures like Cicero and Cato into wimps compared to a muscular Mark Antony, with no mention of the intellectual feats by which we now know them best. Ancient world or this one, big ideas don’t easily compete on screen with messy power struggles and lustrous bodies. But it’s worth a try. “I believe in philosophy,” Hy…

Freedom Federation Summit: A Sleepy Awakening

By Sarah Posner

…Community, sought to dispel “rumors” that the tea party movement doesn’t “welcome blacks.” Yet while they endorsed their tea party friends (who had apparently depleted their audience), other speakers made clear that perhaps the tea parties needed a little more of the holy ghost. “We need the tea party movement with a Christian imperative,” said the Rev. Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference. “That wo…

Matisyahu Shaves His Beard

By Jay Michaelson

…e reading this, Matisyahu, or Matt, or by whatever new name this newly strong self is to be known, let me be the first to welcome you home….