George Weigel’s Revisionist History Casts Vatican II as a Christian Nationalist Handbook
The upcoming 60th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council, better known as Vatican II, will…
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Unprecedented Anti-LGBTQ Statement By Orthodox Church in America Should Be Christian Nationalist Warning Sign to US Orthodoxy
Late last week, the Orthodox Church in America, the second largest Orthodox church body in…
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Don’t Let Bigoted Campaigns Sour You to the Revolutionary Idea of Religious Freedom
On January 16 we celebrate Religious Freedom Day to commemorate what may be the most…
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Vatican Fires Shot at US Religious Right, Calls Out “Religious Liberty” Industry and “Evangelical-Catholic Alliance”
An article being described as “explosive,” written by two allies of Pope Francis in a…
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Will “Church Militants” Be Marching for Trump?
Conservative interpretations of Catholic theology are often more influential on the religious and political right than they’re often given credit for.
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In This Week’s LGBT Recap: Are Gay Priests Overdue for a Stonewall Moment?
“Unless gay priests decide that it’s time for their Stonewall moment, Church leaders–some of them closeted, sometimes self-loathing, homosexually-oriented men themselves–will continue to utter the slander that affects not just ordained gay men and seminarians, but every LGBTQ person in the Church.”
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“Freedom” vs. “Liberty”: Why Religious Conservatives Have Begun to Favor One Over the Other
Religious “liberty” is code for something else entirely.
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It should have been their finest moment, the crowning achievement of a nearly decade-long effort…
Read MoreU.S. Bishops (Who Lit Religious Liberty Fuse) Urge Civility
With the flames still smoldering after Indiana’s bruising fight over the limits of “religious liberty,”…
Read MorePope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap
The Boston Globe reported this week that the U.S. State Department will appoint a special…
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