Pope Francis’ commission on the clergy’s sexual violation of children had a timely private screening in Rome last week of “Spotlight,” the Oscar-nominated film about the pedophilia scandal in Boston. The film offers the Vatican, if
Catholic high school: Archdiocese ‘does not permit’ same-sex wedding announcement
By BY JOEL CONNELLY
Bishop Blanchet High School in Seattle has refused to run an announcement in its alumni magazine for the same-sex marriage
Indian Supreme Court Agrees To Reconsider Homosexuality Ruling
The court announced Tuesday that it would hold new hearings on a 2013 ruling that recriminalized homosexuality.
The Supreme Court of India gave
Inside the secret gay movement at one of America’s most homophobic colleges
born-again this way
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
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,
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,
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,”
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.
WATCH: Inside A LGBT-Friendly Catholic Church
Documentary filmmaker Eric Kruszewski shows that being Catholic and being gay are not mutually exclusive.
To identify as a gay devout Catholic seems contradictory to many people—and for good reason. The Church, both historically and presently, continues
‘Hippie ex-priest’ put ‘Spotlight’ on sexual abuse
Richard Sipe’s studies of celibacy helped uncover the Catholic Church’s scandal
In the new movie “Spotlight,” a character describes