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How the term “gender ideology” can give an old prejudice new life.

Views Steven P. Millies / March 27, 2024

Gender ideology cannot be an ideology, because those who claim it are in opposition to an emerging empirical reality.

Pope Francis has routinely criticized “gender ideology.” What does he mean?

Views David Palmieri / March 26, 2024

Pope Francis is not rejecting transgender persons, but the idea that gender is fleeting. This subtle insight is essential.

For this gay Catholic, a moment of rejection became a sign of spiritual strength

Views Vincent Corcoran / March 24, 2024

Somehow, I felt like the incident and the following gathering had presented me with a providential sign from a loving God.

A gay poet and Catholic convert, John Martin Finlay depicted his struggle with faith and sexuality

Views Nick Bowen / March 20, 2024

Finlay found that Catholicism offered structure and clarity to an otherwise chaotic and hysterical world.

On Staten Island, LGBTQ groups get their own St. Patrick’s Day parade. Is this inclusion?

Views Michael O'Brien / March 16, 2024

There’s no reason why activists and members of the LGBTQ community should still be banned from the main parade.

Richard J. Clifford, S.J.: Is the story of Sodom and Gomorrah about homosexuality? No.

Views Richard J. Clifford, S.J. / March 14, 2024

The sexual assault on the two angelic servants is certainly not a warning against homosexuality, and all attempts to interpret the narrative in that direction seriously misread the story.

Review: “Queerness in the Catholic Church” presents the realities of LGBTQ lives

Views Jason Steidl Jack / March 8, 2024

The book’s incarnational, Catholic approach leads us out of ignorance and exclusion to the queer peripheries where everyone is welcome and heard.

What Wagner’s opera “Tannhäuser” tells us about forgiveness and inclusion

Views Harry Rose / March 6, 2024

Tannhäuser is a casualty less of his own sin than he is of a pernicious clerical prejudice that obscures the boundary between the virtuous and the reprehensible.

James Alison: God “detoxifies” our experience of shame and reveals to humanity its sameness

Views James Alison / March 4, 2024

Because God actually likes us and wants us to enjoy life with him, God occupied the space of death and shame so as to detoxify those realities for ever.

I lost many Catholic friends during my gender transition. This is how I healed.

Views Maxwell Kuzma / March 2, 2024

I was alone, without my immediate family, in the next stage of my life. This was a stage of transitioning and building a new faith community, one that would affirm, respect and support me in full.