A recent retrospective at the Whitney Museum centers on the activist legacy of New York City artist David Wojnarowicz, but also reveals his latent Catholicism
The truth (and history) behind the pope’s comments on a commission to “clarify” the role of women deacons; Italian bishops react to Italy legalizing same-sex unions.
The forced resignation of the widely respected Tony Spence, who had a long history of serving the Catholic press, raises questions about changes at the USCCB.
The exhortation is a valiant and powerful exercise in the Petrine ministry of upholding church unity. Is it another starting point in Francis’s pontificate?
If John Paul II was the philosopher and Benedict XVI the theologian, Pope Francis is the poet pope, giving voice to the dreams and wisdom of migrants and the poor.
Who’s revealing Francis’s exhortation on marriage and the family; What some speculate it says about divorced and same-sex couples; How corrupt Cardinal Bertone is.
Selected articles, interviews, and video from our coverage of the Synod on the Family—and the continuing dialogue about sex, marriage, and Catholic family life.
So this, I realized as I watched, was still a church of surprises. Vatican II lived on. A weight accumulated over thirty-five years dropped from from my shoulders.
Francis has introduced the possibility that the spotlight of moral judgment can can be shone back on those who make the judgments, and on their very act of judging.
John Henry Newman once said of the laity that the church would look foolish without them, and from the beginning the synod did indeed look foolish without us.
Aside from restatements of the teaching on sexual morality, there were glimpses of how a spirituality of discernment could infuse the church in its mission of mercy.
After news of secret visit with Kim Davis, could the affection that Pope Francis generated with his visit to the United States last week vanish in a cloud of smoke?
Traditionalists grumble Francis is stacking the Synod assembly with “lefties”; 2016 World Day of Peace theme is announced, along with a long list of global issues.
Nothing has changed me as much as being friends with gay people has. The theory, the doctrine, the dogma: it all disappears in the face of friendship and love.
For supporters of same-sex marriage, Obergefell is definitely a victory. But the victory is not primarily one for the Supreme Court—or for Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Articulating a basis for the Court’s judgment that’s preferable to the somewhat diffuse mix of rationales on which Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority relies.
Whether or not U.S. support for LGBT rights goes beyond the rhetorical, societies still viewing themselves as “under God” will bridle at this sudden turn about.
The core liberal conviction about the Supreme Court still rings true: it is most constructive when power is used to vindicate the rights of beleaguered minorities.
Anne Enright’s new novel suggests something simple—family, for good or ill, keeps forming us even when we try to escape it—but her prose constantly surprises.
Synod officials released an “underwhelming” working document for October’s assembly while Italian Catholics gathered to protest gay marriage and gender theory.
What Beau Biden’s funeral brought home is that the feelings nearly all of us -- left, right, and center -- have about family bonds transcend day-to-day arguments.
A preview of upcoming papal visits at home, abroad and with Italian protestants. And the press turns Francis’s list of “attacks on life” into an abortion debate.
It is a mark of how much has changed so quickly that Ireland’s vote for gay marriage was the expected outcome, even if the breadth of that outcome was breathtaking.
Cardinal Parolin calls Ireland’s gay marriage victory a “defeat for humanity”; progressives and traditionalists hold secret meetings to discuss Synod on the Family.
Tension between religious freedom and combating discrimination is the frame for RFRA debates. But these highlight a more basic problem with RFRA jurisprudence.
The furor over Indiana’s RFRA raises questions about our capacity to engage in the kind of thoughtful, careful public discussion that issues like this demand.
