File under the category: The Church hates the gays more than it loves its own. Churches are closing, schools are closing, food banks are underfunded, and shelters for homeless people are shuttered. More and more people are living on the
Roman Catholic Priest Comes Out
A Catholic priest is now making the headlines in Italy after having decided to come out on Facebook on International Coming Out Day (11 October).
‘I am gay. Or, better, I am a happily gay priest,’ he stated.
Don Mario
Bishop vs. Bishop: Lutheran calls out Catholic over marriage
The retired presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Rt. Rev. Herbert Chilstrom, has delivered a stinging, public critique of his former Roman Catholic counterpart in Minnesota for aggressively campaigning for an anti-same sex marriage amendment on
More sex charges filed against priest removed from St. Paul church
A priest who had been charged with criminal sexual misconduct now faces 17 counts of possessing child pornography, Ramsey County authorities said Tuesday.
The Rev. Curtis Wehmeyer, 48, of Oakdale, was removed as pastor of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in
Catholic Church errs in fighting same-sex marriage
There’s a delicious rebellion brewing in Washington state — the “other Washington,” as those of us based in D.C. like to say.
A group of 63 former Roman Catholic priests, with a total of 800 years service, supports Referendum 74,
Chilean bishop resigns amid sex abuse inquiry
The pope yesterday accepted the resignation of a Chilean bishop who is under investigation by the Vatican for the alleged sexual abuse of a minor.
The resignation of Bishop Marco Antonio Ordenes Fernandez of Iquique, Chile, marks one of the
Catholic theologian preaches revolution to end church’s ‘authoritarian’ rule
Hans Küng urges confrontation from the grassroots to unseat pope and force radical reform at Vatican
One of the world’s most prominent Catholic theologians has called for a revolution from below to unseat the pope and force radical reform at
Women as Priests
By JUDITH LEVITT
REFORMERS within the Roman Catholic Church have been calling for the ordination of women as priests. The Vatican, however, refuses to consider the possibility and uses its power to silence those who speak out. Catholic clergy in
A Gay Wedding in Rome
Though it’s still not legal, the home base of the Catholic Church hosted its first known same-sex marriage today. Barbie Latza Nadeau on the new push for civil rights in Italy.
Gay marriage is not legal in Italy, but that
The Catholic Church’s lost revolution
If you read nothing else this week, read this:
The Catholic Church’s lost revolution
“The magnificent Roman Catholic Church, a millennial font of reasoned faith and aesthetic genius, is on the road to becoming yet another fundamentalist cult.”