Lay Catholic Support for LGBTQ Rights Grows in U.S.
A new report from the Public Religion Research Institute weighs religious support for LGBT issues. The reality of U.S. Catholic support for LGBT equality may surprise you.
Entries by Cristina Traina
Is Winning Some Losing All? The Paradox of Religious Freedom
Close on the heels of the 2014 Hobby Lobby and Wheaton College cases, the Supreme Court’s recent Masterpiece Cakeshop decision is only the most recent ruling to leave the politics of sexuality and religious freedom in an uncomfortable place.
Pope Francis: World’s Pastor, Enforcer of Doctrine—or Spiritual Director?
Pope Francis’s declarations on LGBTQ issues have been producing spiritual whiplash. On one hand we have “Who am I to judge?” and “God made you like this. God loves you like this.” On the other, we have a reaffirmation that seminaries should not admit gay men, and no indication that Francis plans to alter basic church teaching on sexuality. How should we understand this complex–or contradictory?–figure?
“Intrinsically Disordered”: How We Got There, Why It Matters, and What We Should Do About It
The Roman Catholic Church uses the terminology “intrinsic, objective disorder” to describe lesbian and gay sexuality, but more and more Catholics are speaking out about the harm that such language causes. How did we get strapped with such terminology and what can we do about it?
Catholic Family Values and Same-Sex Marriage in Ireland: Three Years Later
Nearly three years after Ireland’s successful 2015 referendum on same-sex marriage, it’s worth asking how such a Catholic country is faring afterward and how it managed to pass same-sex marriage legislation in the first place.
Lost in Translation: Our Baptismal Identity
God bestows that common, fundamental identity equally on all of us in baptism, a physical sign of grace for our actual, embodied, living selves, with all our histories, bumps, warts, and “tendencies.”
Putting Pope Francis’ “Ideology of Gender” Comments in Context
Today’s post is by guest blogger Cristina Traina, Professor of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois….