Pope, Christian Conservatives Team Up to Promote Patriarchy
The Vatican held an interfaith conference this week on the promotion of the “traditional”—that is,…
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Circuit Court Rejects Priests for Life Contraception Challenge
As if further proof were required that challenges to the contraceptive mandate in the Affordable…
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The U.S. bishops’ semi-annual meeting, which concluded in Baltimore on Thursday, was one giant raspberry…
Read MoreChurch=State in Putin’s Orthodox Empire?; Evangelical-Orthodox Anti-Gay Alliance; Malaysian Court Protects Transwomen; Catholicism (Still) Declining in Latin America; Global LGBT Recap
A new study by the Williams Institute at UCLA law school and NORC at the University…
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Does ISIS Vindicate Pope Benedict’s Islam Remarks, as George Weigel Believes?
In September of 2006, His Holiness Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI sent seismic shockwaves through the…
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Vatican Enlists Allies Against Gay Marriage; Iranian Gays Pushed to Change Gender; And More in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap
New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic…
Read MoreLouisville Diocese Throws Teacher Under the Bus Over Ebola Hysteria
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Read MoreAre “Pro-Life” Hispanic Catholics the Democrats’ Future?
Michael Sean Winters is taking Wendy Davis’ “lackluster” gubernatorial campaign in Texas as evidence that…
Read MoreRussian Politician Wants to Ban Apple CEO Who Says Being Gay is God’s Gift; Violence After Preachers Blame Liberian Gays for Ebola; Global LGBT Recap
Apple CEO Tim Cook, who heads what is certainly one of the most visible global…
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Church Synod Recap: Micromanaging the Morals of Others
Changes in tone are no substitute for changes in substance.
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