An interview with Bishop James. D Conley, who signed the open letter “Created Male and Female” defending a traditional understanding of gender.
Sexuality
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Taking single life in the church seriously
The single life is perhaps the most neglected area in theological and pastoral reflection in the church.
Posted inFaith, Features
What Catholic women actually believe about Natural Family Planning
New data from the most comprehensive survey of American Catholic women ever conducted.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
The neoliberal sexuality of the left
Leftist men need to get more leftist about sex—and maybe more conservative, too.
Posted inFaith, News
San Diego bishop celebrates special Mass for parents of L.G.B.T. Catholics
The U.S. bishops’ committee on marriage and family released the letter “Always Our Children” in 1997 as an attempt to encourage parents not to abandon their gay and lesbian children and to assure them of God’s love.
Posted inLast Take, Politics & Society
Did American Christian culture pave the way for Hugh Hefner’s sexual revolution?
Hef the man stopped mattering to the culture decades ago, but Hef the symbol still does.
Posted inFaith, Vatican Dispatch
Eliminating any difference between sexes ‘is not right,’ pope says
The pope was speaking on Oct. 5 at an assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life.
Posted inArts & Culture, Poetry
Sex and Solitude: St. John Paul II in conversation with Ranier Maria Rilke
Two crucial words from Rainer Maria Rilke’s ‘Letters to a Young Poet’ are missing from John Paul II’s ‘Letter to Artists’: sex and solitude.
Posted inBooks, Faith
Stepping out onto the bridge: Father James Martin responds to conversation surrounding his L.G.B.T. book
Even negative reactions are part of the conversation that I hoped the book would generate about L.G.B.T. Catholics.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Sex and the Catholic college campus
There is a perception that the hook-up culture is more prevalent than it actually is.