New Survey: Catholic Women “Disengaged & Disengaging” — And Don’t Listen to US Bishops
Nearly five years into Pope Francis papacy, with its great expectations for a revival of…
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New Study: Islamophobia Common in Catholic Media
With Catholic commentators writing about the “threat” of Islam, it’s no surprise many U.S. Catholics have negative views of Muslims
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Pence’s Prayer Breakfast Appearance Underscores Fractured American Catholicism
The annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast is hardly a bipartisan or nonpolitical event. It was…
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Catholic Citizenship: Massimo Faggioli on the Role of Public Theologians Today
Massimo Faggioli’s new book, Catholicism and Citizenship: Political Cultures of the Church in the Twenty-First Century,…
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With Creation of Little Noticed Department, Pope Francis is Securing Liberal Reforms
As Steve Bannon has allied with the pope’s bitterest opponents, liberals have had all the more reason to rally behind Francis.
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“Make The Mass Latin Again”: The Pope Francis Backlash Comes Home
There’s beauty in mythology, to be sure. But there is also grave danger in believing mythologies can save broken institutions.
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‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition
In her latest book, journalist Celia Wexler explores the conflicted feelings many Catholic women have towards their faith and the attempts to make peace with the institutions and traditions that fail them.
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Donald Trump Scares LGBT People Worldwide and More, in This Week’s Global LGBT Recap
Backlash At UN & Elsewhere; Religious Leaders Rally Against Marriage Equality in Taiwan & El Salvador.
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Before Breitbart: How Right Wing Media Transformed American Politics
It didn’t all start with Glenn Beck.
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Could Orthodoxy Be Having its Vatican II Moment?
An interview with theologian Fr. John Chryssavgis
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