By Jill Tucker and Henry K. Lee
Hundreds of students at a San Francisco Catholic school wore ties to class Friday to protest an administrative decision to keep the graduation photo of a female student wearing a tuxedo out of
Catholic Church forces woman to leave job after gay marriage is revealed
By MARY SANCHEZ
Colleen Simon insisted on performing her job this week out of devotion.
On Wednesday, she managed a delivery of 2,000 pounds of food for the pantry at St. Francis Xavier Church. It’s work she sees as fulfilling
Catholic teacher backs gay son, quits to protest contract
By Michael D. Clark
Veteran Catholic teacher Molly Shumate stared at the Cincinnati Archdiocese contract for next school year and thought of her son.
She remembered when a nervous Zachery Shumate, a teenager at the time, approached her and revealed
Roman Catholic Church faces human-rights case over dismissal of employee
By GLORIA GALLOWAY
Ginette Chaumont says she devoted her life to the Roman Catholic Church, forgoing marriage and a family to serve for 22 years as the assistant to a series of Ottawa archbishops before menopause left her depressed, disorganized
Church brings 1st Amendment into Eastside Catholic lawsuit
By DONNA GORDON BLANKINSHIP
A gay vice principal who was forced out of his job at Eastside Catholic School filed a discrimination and wrongful termination lawsuit against the school and church on Friday. Lawyers for the church and school planned
Former vice principal sues Eastside Catholic over dismissal
Zmuda, the vice principal who was forced to resign from Eastside Catholic School after marrying his partner in a same-sex wedding, is filing a discrimination lawsuit against the school and the Archdiocese of Seattle.
Zmuda’s attorney, Richard H. Friedman, said
Bourgeois disinvited from SNAP Philadelphia fundraiser
Shame, Shame, Shame on SNAP!
By Tom Roberts
Roy Bourgeois, a former Maryknoll priest, has been disinvited from a Philadelphia-area fundraising event for the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) because some members of the organization feared
Melbourne Priest Greg Reynolds Defrocked And Excommunicated By The Vatican
Reformist priest praises pope’s new tone but wants more
By Mary Wisniewski
An Austrian priest who has stirred controversy in Europe with his challenge to Catholic church teachings on taboo topics suggested on Wednesday that women should be allowed to become priests and said that gays need justice, not
Evangelizing the institutional church: an interview with Helmut Schüller
By Jamie Manson
Much has been written about Austrian priest and reformer Helmut Schüller since he opened his 15-city U.S. tour, called “The Catholic Tipping Point,” in New York last week.
Schüller has been making news in the Roman Catholic