Overcoming Welcome-ish: A Challenge
How welcoming are welcoming parishes really?
Cristina L.H. Traina (she/her) is Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Chair of Catholic Theology at Fordham University in Bronx, New York, where she teaches Christian theology and ethics. A PhD graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School, she writes and speaks on many topics in ethics, including sexuality, immigration, child work, and abortion.
How welcoming are welcoming parishes really?
In a summer when uncivil behavior seems to accost us from all sides, 24-year-old Mia…
Responses to the Supreme Court’s Masterpiece Cakeshop decision are generating a library’s worth of commentary,…
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.
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’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?
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?
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.
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.”
Today’s post is by guest blogger Cristina Traina, Professor of Religious Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois….
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