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In my last posting some days ago about Adriano Oliva's  Amours: L'Église, les divorcés remariés, les couples homosexuels  (P...

I don't like beating dead horses — and could not bring myself to beat a live one, either. I do think it's important to make one...

In a 27 April 2002 letter to the Charlotte Observer  entitled "In Eyes of Abuse Victims, Bishop Curlin Is No Hero,"* Neal E...

On 22 January and 3 February 2003, Cardinal Bernard Law was deposed in Boston by attorneys representing abuse survivors. In that depo...

RIP Bishop William Curlin, Emeritus Bishop of Charlotte, NC: a holy man, a gifted pastor, a gentle priest and a dear friend. He was a frie...

In a statement at his Christian Catholicism site , Jerry Slevin concludes that, with his apostolic exhortation Evangelii Gaudium , Po...

Pastoral Response As I read the ongoing conversations at the America and Commonweal blog sites about the recent Fordham conferenc...

As expected (and as Colleen Kochivar-Baker has noted with insightful analysis), the Catholic bishops of the U.S. have approved the marriag...

I’ve just written about what happens when Christian groups stereotype their LGBT brothers and sisters and then use those stereotypes to just...

Michael Bayly’s Wild Reed blog has a good posting yesterday on the “ex-gay” or reparative therapy movement, which has a Catholic component,...

Today is the funeral of Steve’s father. Yesterday, at the wake, the priest (who for several years gave Marriage Encounter workshops with Ste...

A church ally we in the LGBT community who still search for spiritual foundations should celebrate is Peter J. Gomes. I saw him recently in...

Again, this posting is part of an ongoing dialogue on a thread at National Catholic Reporter 's blog site, the NCR Cafe. The thread dea...