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Catholic Teaching, Homosexuality, and Terminology
Many Catholic writers insist that the simple identification of one’s sexual orientation is contrary to the teaching of the Catholic Church. Catholic writer Marc Barnes has stated this view...
Pope Benedict: Not Pope John Paul II
Writing for Fox News, John Moody observes that Pope Benedict XVI was not Pope John Paul II. This seems, for Moody, to be the hermeneutical key in which the...
False Hope and Gay Conversion Therapy
In any discussion of homosexuality from an orthodox perspective, the question of reparative therapy is in the background. It seems to me that our response to this question cannot...
Born That Way?
The causes of homosexuality are infamously difficult to pin down. Science (in the American Psychological Association) and religion (in the Catechism of the Catholic Church ) have agreed that,...
Why Matthew Vines Is Wrong About the Bible and Homosexuality
Matthew Vines has made a name for himself. He took two years off from college to study the question of homosexuality and the church. At the end, he came...
Corralling the Cardinal
To many onlookers, particularly secular ones, the name “Timothy Cardinal Dolan” seems to evoke the attempt to make the Roman Catholic Church fill the role that once earned the...
Why I Call Myself A Gay Christian
Why would a Christian identify as gay?” That was the question posed by many who read my previous piece for First Things, “Dan Savage Was Right.” Of course, there...
Dan Savage Was Right
Dan Savage spoke, and the Internet exploded. He rejected the Bible as “bullshit” in a keynote address to high-school journalists, and then described students who chose to walk away...
