Catholic Parish Quits Interfaith Service Rather Than Host Married Gay Musician

Despite Pope Francis’ encouragement for church leaders to drop their “obsession” with marriage equality for... Read More

Immigrant Rights’ Groups Cut Budgets Because of Loss of Catholic Funds

We reported a few weeks back about the Illinois’ Catholic Campaign for Human Development (CCHD)... Read More

Malta’s Bishops Quote the Letter, But Not the Spirit, of Pope Francis’ Words

Pope Francis’ positive words about lesbian and gay people in the last few months have... Read More

QUOTE TO NOTE: “Fun to Be Catholic Again”

In a Washington Post “On Faith” blog post  about how Pope Francis is re-shaping the Catholic Church,... Read More

Approval of Pope Francis Soars, as Marriage Equality Support Grows

Recent polling  indicating American Catholic support for LGBT right echoes previous numbers, reported on here... Read More

Illinois Catholics Organize to Pass Marriage Equality Law

The debate surrounding Illinois’ SB10, a marriage equality bill, is heating up, and Catholics are... Read More

Pope Francis’ Letter-Writing Revolution Requires Our Involvement

Pope Francis makes headline after headline for personally reaching out through letters and phone calls... Read More

What Would You Say About Marriage and Family at the Upcoming Synod?

The Vatican announced yesterday that Pope Francis has called an extraordinary synod of bishops to take... Read More

The Mostly Ambivalent Responses by U.S. Bishops to Pope Francis

For more than two weeks, my email inbox has been swamped with messages from folks... Read More

Bishops Try to Stem Marriage Equality’s Spread in the U.S.

As marriage equality becomes an emerging reality in the United States, opponents are employing new... Read More