Religion Dispatches
Let’s be clear: half of the world’s poor are women, and the church’s effort to deprive the Catholic women among them of contraceptives, of the use of condoms that could protect them from HIV-AIDS, and of the ministry of women priests who would marry, absolve, and anoint them, is no service to them.
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Read MoreIt’s no surprise, but still discouraging to read the new pope’s language on LGBT issues.
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As Brazil’s evangelical population continues to rise a religious right has begun to consolidate power, bringing the church into the state and in some cases threatening to roll back hard won human rights advances.
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