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November 2015

November 04, 2015

Generation Win: LGBT-Rights Supporters and Those Mad Enough to Resist Them

We’re living in a world where jocks use words like “relational” – and come to...

August 2015

August 06, 2015

Margie Winters: The Making of A Rebel

When I first read the story of how Waldron Mercy fired Margie Winters, a lesbian...

July 2015

July 21, 2015

Catholic Schools and Gay Teachers: Can We Compromise Without Compromising?

Since firing religious education department head Margie Winters for being married to another woman, Waldron...

July 09, 2015

Of Obergefell and Ostracism

Just as I was learning not to hate the term “national conversation,” gay marriage supporters...

July 04, 2015

A Requiem for Abnormality

A few weeks ago, a longtime reader, a gay man in his 60s – his...

June 2015

June 30, 2015

Hiding My True Colors

In my misspent youth – which is to say until my early 30s – I...

June 27, 2015

Obergefell and New Identities

I would not have known this yesterday, but reading Slate on the morning after an...

June 07, 2015

What Cordileone Should Have Said

Last week, at a Sacra Liturgia conference in Manhattan, San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone warned...

June 02, 2015

Why I’m Still Catholic

I was raised Freudian. My father was a psychoanalyst; my mother had, at various points...

November 2013

November 24, 2013

Building the Kingdom in Bad Weather

In 1943, the UK's Catholic Herald reports, Léon Degrelle was excommunicated by the bishop of...

November 10, 2013

The Permanent Friend Zone

It's not every day reading other Patheos blogs triggers a visceral reaction, but one of...

September 2013

September 07, 2013

Is Big Father Watching Us?

In one scene from Annie Hall, Alvy (Woody Allen) finds his argument with Annie (Diane...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

The Day the Pope Said ‘Gay’

Fielding questions from the press on his way home from World Youth Day, Pope Francis...

July 05, 2013

Renunciations

For the better part of last month, my brain wouldn't work. Well, maybe that's putting...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

The Witness of Mary Elizabeth Williams

Salon staffer Mary Elizabeth Williams calls herself "a gay-friendly, feminist, pro-choice, bigmouthed practicing Catholic." In...

May 24, 2013

How’s That “Culture of Encounter” Workin’ for Ya?

On Wednesday, May 22, Pope Francis called on Catholics and non-Catholics to build a "culture...

May 06, 2013

The Church and Gays: No Earthly Reason

Yesterday morning, ten LGBT-rights activists gathered outside St. Patrick's cathedral for Mass and found themselves,...

May 04, 2013

This Week in the Military: Duelling Moral Panic

Military Religious Freedom Foundation head Mikey Weinstein takes pains to remind fellow Americans that he's...

February 2013

February 11, 2013

Father of Mine: A Lenten Reflection

If you grew up in an average occidental family, chances are excellent that at some...

January 2013

January 04, 2013

Praying for Jennifer Fulwiler and Breaking the Gadget

Readers: When I wrote this piece, all the news I'd received on Jennifer Fulwiler's condition...

December 2012

December 16, 2012

Can A Mass Murder Mean A Church-World Truce?

Only something unthinkably bad could make Slate and National Catholic Register cover the same story...

November 2012

November 21, 2012

To the Pit Crew on My Faith Journey

So I check Facebook this morning and see that Joanne McPortland has posted a link....

August 2012

August 20, 2012

Drawing A Line on SB 1172

When considering California's Senate Bill 1172, which, if passed and signed into law, would prohibit...

August 06, 2012

Chaput and the Republic of Chickens

These days, Philadelphia archbishop Charles Chaput has been showing signs of America fatigue. "Democracy," he...

August 03, 2012

Romoeroticism for Straight Guys

In Crisis Magazine, Eve Tushnet argues that the Catholic Church has something unique to offer...

June 2012

June 09, 2012

Of Mothers, Muppets and Sr. Margaret Farley

Maybe because she grew up hearing the Tridentine Mass daily, my mother has always had...

May 2012

May 19, 2012

Fr. Williams and the Grind of Celibacy

They say you know you're getting old when cops start looking like kids. I say...

May 17, 2012

Fair Play for the Girl Scouts!

A friend of mine, actually one of my old parish's most accomplished busybodies, once talked...

May 04, 2012

Mark Shea and the Gay Saint

Mark Shea's May 1 column, the one in which he informally canonizes the late Perry...

March 2012

March 16, 2012

Barbara Johnson and the Quality of Mercy

Okay, here's a list of the angles related to the Fr. Guarnizo controversy I'm not...

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