How many are willing to have their minds changed, to desire for something from this synodal process that goes deeper than their pre-existing agenda?
Sexuality
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Podcast: Two Catholic theologians model healthy debate on transgender issues
Elizabeth Sweeny Block and Abigail Favale are two Catholic scholars who have modeled civil debate around sex and gender in the pages of America and do so again this week on “The Gloria Purvis Podcast.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Catholic Book Club
How America magazine learned to love Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day has not historically been the favorite holiday of America writers, but reflections on love have always found a home in these pages.
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What does God reveal in transgender bodies? A conversation on Catholic teaching and gender
After two professors of theology engaged in a fruitful conversation in America on the 2019 Vatican document on “‘gender theory in education,” the editors invited them each to respond once again to each other on the subject of gender identity and transgender persons.
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Cardinal McElroy: Sex and sin need a new framework in the church
“Our sexual lives have many areas of sinfulness and I’m not challenging that,” Cardinal McElroy says this week on the Jesuitical podcast. “All I’m saying is that in the Christian moral life, they don’t automatically represent mortal sin.”
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Diocese issues guidance on gender dysphoria, calling for compassion and coherence with church teaching
New guidance and policies on ministering to people experiencing gender dysphoria released Jan. 16 by the Diocese of Des Moines, Iowa, call for compassion and coherence with the church’s teaching on gender and identity.
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Conversation: How should Catholics think about gender identity and transgender persons?
This summer, amid a growing debate about gender identity in the United States, America asked two professors of theology to revisit the 2019 Vatican document on “‘gender theory in education.”
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John Paul I and birth control: Rare audio recording shows he wanted change in church teaching before becoming pope
The future pope was hesitant about categorically banning contraception before the release of “Humanae Vitae,” documents and recordings show.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
The church can help prevent sexual violence—by doing a better job teaching about sex
Far from encouraging sexual activity, the right kind of sex education can teach children that they have the agency to say “no.” Parishes and faith-based groups are ideal for delivering this message.
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Podcast: We need more than consent to have ‘good’ sex
This week on “Jesuitical,” we ask Christine Emba, the author of “Rethinking Sex”: Why are so many millennial women miserable when it comes to their dating and sex lives?