A Rift in the Rainbow Alliance
by Carl R. TruemanA legal conflict between two organizations in the U.K. demonstrates that sometimes allies are found in unlikely places. Continue Reading »
How Not To Lead
by Charles J. ChaputPolitical discretion on the world stage can never be an excuse for local bishops to avoid speaking the truth, and—worse—to decline to provide counsel and encouragement to faithful Catholic public officials seeking their support. Continue Reading »
Pride Month and Public Decency
by Pavlos Leonidas PapadopoulosIs our “sweet land of liberty” really all about grown men dressing up as hyper-sexualized caricatures of women, taking over the public square, and insisting that society celebrate them? Continue Reading »
Greetings from the Rainbow Reich
by R. R. RenoThe Rainbow Reich and its agenda of cultural deregulation is the natural partner to the most ambitious programs of economic deregulation, which is why corporate American embraces it. Both destroy protections of the weakest and most vulnerable in the name of “freedom.” Continue Reading »
Denying and Defying our Human Bodies
by Jennifer LahlMedical procedures that would have been unconscionable fifty years ago are happening all around us. The medical profession may never recover from its complicity in the mutilation of young people. Continue Reading »
Queer Nation Is No Nation At All
by Carl R. TruemanIf the Pride flag cannot even hold together the community for which it claims to stand, how can it possibly offer a stable vision for a nation and its national culture? Continue Reading »
Baylor University Charters LGBTQ Group
by Carl R. TruemanThe news that Baylor University has officially chartered Prism, an LGBT student organization on campus, marks an important moment in Christian higher education in the USA. Continue Reading »
The Recovery of Fraternal Correction Among Bishops
by George WeigelThe Church has a “form” given it by Christ, and all true Catholic reform is in reference to that form. Continue Reading »
The Lens of Holy Thursday
by Francis X. MaierIn an open letter to the German episcopate, 80 bishops voiced their strong concern over the direction of Germany’s “Synodal Path.” Continue Reading »
Coercion and Conversion Therapy
by Ephraim RadnerA recent letter signed by leading English church leaders implies that encouraging people to live the sexual lives ordered by their biological sex is a form of oppression. This strikes me as completely misconceived. Continue Reading »
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