Women’s Equality in the Church is No Longer Negotiable
It Is not the nuns’ problem, but everyone’s.
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The Man in the Red Dress: My Unlikely Friendship with Cardinal Francis George
From my vantage point across the aisle and a few rows back, I studied Cardinal…
Read MoreMormon Leaders Slam ‘Counterfeit’ Gay Families; Vatican Resists Gay Ambassador; ISIS Executes Man for Homosexuality; Global LGBT Recap
This week new US rules for federal contractors went into effect, forbidding workplace discrimination on…
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Vatican Council on Women Would Be Funny Were it Not So Insulting
It may be Women’s Week at the Vatican, but you have to look carefully at…
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Vatican Entangled in Women’s Issues
Pope Francis has promised to lift up women’s voices and create more meaningful roles for…
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Pope Francis, Breeding Bunnies and Ideological Colonization
Pope Francis confounds me. How can a man who is so eloquent and obviously heartfelt…
Read MoreWinners and Losers in the “Visitation” of American Nuns?
Pope Francis: Winner When not busy sending dogs to heaven (oops, not really) or brokering the…
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American Nuns and the Vatican: More Pain than Promise
Despite herculean efforts to make nice, the 12-page report and its presentation reinforce the Roman Catholic Church’s patriarchal power paradigm.
Read More“De-Ratzingerization” Continues as Pope Francis Removes Conservative Cardinal Burke
Pope Francis finally dropped the long-expected axe on Cardinal Raymond Burke, one of the curia’s…
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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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