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A coalition of LGBT Catholics planning to hold a workshop (sponsored by the New Ways Ministry) on LGBT and gender identity issues during the upcoming World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia have…

A group of interdenominational conservative Christian clergy (plus professor) quietly released a statement on Passover/Good Friday titled, “Now Is the Time to Talk About Religious Liberty.” Now…

With the flames still smoldering after Indiana’s bruising fight over the limits of “religious liberty,” the Catholic bishops are calling for calm, temperate discussion—in the culture war fight they…

There’s no reason to think the increasingly global culture war between advocates and opponents of LGBT equality will let up this year. In fact, the opposite is true: opponents of LGBT equality are…

Writing in Crux, associate editor John Allen cautions against the “overblown” narrative of “perceived resistance from conservative American bishops to Pope Francis’ progressive agenda,” despite the…

The Vatican held an interfaith conference this week on the promotion of the “traditional”—that is, non-LGBT or single-headed—family organized around the concept of “complementarity.” Complementarity…

The U.S. bishops’ semi-annual meeting, which concluded in Baltimore on Thursday, was one giant raspberry to Pope Francis’ agenda. The meeting was heavy on the bishops’ favorite culture war themes, but…

New Vatican Confab on ‘Complementarity’ in Marriage Before the dust had settled from the Catholic bishops’ synod on the family, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith announced that it will be…

Heads up: next week Mexico will host the International Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA) World Conference. According to the Washington Blade, Rosanna Flamer-Caldera, executive…

Catholics may well decide the election. But I daresay it won’t be because they line up behind the bishops.