This week on “Inside the Vatican,” Gerry and Colleen unpack the most comprehensive Vatican document on gender identity yet.
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Posted inFaith, Faith and Reason
The stark choices the Vatican’s gender theory document is raising
The Vatican’s document on “gender theory” is bound to create further conflict, writes David Cloutier of the Catholic University of America, but it exposes the confusion around the differences between nature and choice, and between respect and affirmation.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Listen to the L.G.B.T. person: a response to the Vatican’s gender theory document
The Congregation for Catholic Education’s new document on ‘gender theory’ is a welcome invitation to dialogue. But it also contradicts science and ignores the real-life experience of L.G.B.T. people, Fr. James Martin, S.J. writes.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
The secret history of Catholic caregivers and the AIDS epidemic
Many stories of ordinary people responding to suffering in extraordinary fashion have not yet been captured in forms that will last.
Posted inEditorials, Faith
The Editors: Love, not fear, should guide our conversations on religious freedom and L.G.B.T discrimination
Religious Americans inhabit an increasingly secular culture. But we must not let legitimate concerns about our ability to live out our faith in public life blind us to the fears of our fellow citizens who feel their civil rights are up for debate.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Some Catholic advocates support Equality Act, despite opposition from U.S. bishops
With the House of Representatives expected to vote this week on a bill that would add sexual orientation and gender identity to existing federal nondiscrimination laws, Catholic leaders find themselves on both sides of the debate.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
Review: In ‘Wild Nights with Emily’ love casts out fear
Dickinson is not a poet stunted by fear of living, but an eccentric hermit delighted by the world and delighting in her craft.
Posted inFaith, News
Woman held in Poland for adding L.G.B.T. rainbow to revered icon
The case has highlighted the clash in predominantly Catholic Poland between the freedom of speech and laws banning hostility against religious beliefs.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Two groundbreaking dialogues at the Vatican this week
This week on “Inside the Vatican,” we cover the ecumenical retreat the Vatican is hosting for South Sudanese leaders.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Couple creates a new scholarship for L.G.B.T. Catholics
Dismayed by the negative messages L.G.B.T. Catholics often face regarding their place in the church, Greg Bourke and Michael De Leon decided to take action.