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Five people are watching TV on a laptop on a tepid winter Thursday night in a cozy red house, in an unremarkable suburb 30 miles west of Chicago. This scene would be totally banal
Irish American Cardinal Raymond Burke blames women for church’s problems
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The crisis in Catholicism apparently has one source: women. According to Cardinal Raymond Burke, since the 1960’s women have “feminized” the church and discouraged “manly” men from participating in clerical life.
Club Fight: Tenn. Residents Complain About High School’s Gay-Straight Alliance
By Rob Boston
At public schools around the country, students, mostly high schoolers, are forming Gay-Straight Alliance clubs. Fundamentalist Christians often freak out over the existence of these clubs, like these people are doing in Winchester, Tenn.
Whenever this happens,
Irish priest punished by Florida bishop for informing on pedophile colleague
By Cathy Hayes
A priest, originally from County Tyrone and now
Italy MPs want couples who use surrogate mums jailed
Italy’s upcoming parliamentary battle over gay civil unions has opened with a group of senators proposing prison terms for couples who use overseas surrogate mothers to have a child.
In a move branded “indecent” by Italy’s biggest gay rights group,
Church child abuse scandals ‘tip of iceberg’ say real-life stars of Oscar-tipped film
By Fiachra Gibbons
The child abuse scandals plaguing the Catholic Church are only the tip of the iceberg, the journalists who exposed one of the hierarchy’s biggest cover-ups said Wednesday. Walter Robinson and Mike Rezendes, who won the Pulitzer Prize
The Selective Outrage of the Anglican Church
For the worldwide Anglican Communion, the world’s largest Protestant denomination, sexuality has become a line in the sand.
The Episcopal Church, Anglicanism’s American branch, was suspended on Thursday for three years for its willingness to consecrate same-sex
The Man Who Buried Them Remembers
By Mark S. King
When he conducted the funerals, Tom Bonderenko tells me, he always wore his priestly garments and white stole. Even when no one showed up for the graveside service.
“It was important to show dignity and respect,”
Archdiocese of Seattle publishes names of child-sex abusers
The Archdiocese of Seattle has published a list of 77 child-sex abusers who served or lived in Western Washington over the past several decades.
Seattle Archbishop J. Peter Sartain on Friday apologized for the actions by clergy and religious brothers
A ‘gay lobby’ at the Vatican? One cardinal says it’s real, and Pope Francis is responding
The influential Cardinal Oscar Maradiaga has acknowledged the presence of a “gay lobby” in the Vatican. In a new interview, he says that Pope Francis has adopted a gradual approach to address it – and that Catholic teaching won’t change.