The fatal attack on Asian women in Atlanta was foreseeable, writes Flora x. Tang. It was the product of ideologies that relegate women as the source of blame for men’s desire.
Sexuality
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The boy who assaulted me watched porn since he was 7. Can the Eucharist help us fight this evil?
Websites like Pornhub teach us to satisfy desires at any cost to ourselves or others, writes Ashleen Menchaca-Bagnulo. But we can find our way out of this dark place through the eucharist.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
Struggling with pornography? Matt Fradd says prayer (and therapy) can help.
In an interview with Sean Salai, S,.J., Matt Fradd talks about the ways to address pornography addiction, especially among young people.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Justice Department urged to aggressively prosecute pornography vendors
On April 30, Archbishops Salvatore J. Cordileone of San Francisco and Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City and Bishop David A. Konderla of Tulsa, Oklahoma, wrote Barr to request stepped-up prosecutions.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
A University of Cambridge research project takes a frank look at clericalism and sexuality
While there has been much discussion of clericalism and sexual abuse, writes Catherine R. Osborne, the ability of clergy to maintain a “harmonious relation to sexuality” is relatively unexamined territory.
Posted inFaith, News
Vatican investigates sexual abuse allegation against Chilean president’s uncle
The investigation will determine the credibility of an accusation of abuse allegedly committed “more than 50 years ago” by Archbishop Pinera who, at 103, is the oldest living bishop in the world.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
How L.G.B.T Catholics are celebrating Pride Month
A Mass outside the Stonewall Inn in New York City is one way that L.G.B.T. Catholics are celebrating Pride Month and offering support to those who want to remain in, or rejoin, the church.
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, Vatican Dispatch
Vatican issues new document criticizing ‘gender theory’
The text explains that “gender theory” expresses an ideology that “denies the difference and reciprocity in nature of a man and a woman.”