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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.

We will either learn to walk with one another, or we will be forced by dogma to condemn one another.

The Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law released “A Development Agenda for Sexual and Gender Minorities.” A group of Arab LGBTQ activists living in the U.S. and Canada are planning a retreat…

Amoris Laetitia, Pope Francis’ Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family, leaves much to be desired—pun intended. If you are heterosexual, married, divorced, and remarried with an understanding…

Catholic Church: ‘Joy of Love’ Inspires Little Joy in LGBT Catholics Pope Francis released a long-awaited Apostolic Exhortation on love and the family, which comes after fierce infighting at two…

Fast on the heels of the news that a Bavarian boys choir directed by Pope Benedict’s brother was a hotbed of physical and sexual abuse for decades, comes the allegation that Cardinal Gerhard Müller…

Before I tell you why Ross Douthat’s latest New York Times column, “ Germany on the Brink,” is so very disturbing, let me make clear that he and I see eye-to-eye on some of the issues he discusses…

It’s official—with Ross Douthat’s conspiracy-drenched Sunday column, the idea that the synod is somehow a “plot to change Catholicism” has leapt from the far-right Catholic fringe to the conservative…

Now that Pope Francis has concluded his historic US visit, all eyes turn to Rome for the second part of the Synod of Bishops on family life. Opening the synod yesterday, Francis demonstrated the…

Seems like the meeting between Pope Francis and Kim Davis was not as good for him as it was for her. In a statement released by the Vatican, approved by the pope, the Vatican stated “the Pope met with…