Religious and Political Leaders Ask Archbishop to Stay Away from NOM

Today, Catholics in the Archdiocese of San Francisco will be visiting several parishes to ask... Read More

Ignoring Pope Francis, US Bishops Reaffirm Their Work to Oppose Marriage Equality

It was a question asked last November, and now again this spring by those like Jesuit... Read More

British Bishops Write Positively on Gender Transition and Civil Unions

The Catholic Bishops Conference of England and Wales (CBCEW) has had a reputation for being... Read More

Edie Windsor Is "Thrilled" with Pope Francis' Famous Comment

  Edie Windsor, the lesbian woman who was the plaintiff in the 2013 U.S. Supreme... Read More

Archbishop Responds to Marriage Equality in Style of Pope Francis

A few weeks ago, this blog asked “What happened to ‘respect, compassion, and sensitivity’?” on... Read More

On Being a Lesbian, Married to a Man, and Catholic

Cristina Traina is a Catholic professor of religion at Northwestern University, just outside of Chicago.... Read More

Abusive Parents in UK "Frightened" That Gay Couple Will Raise Children

Catholic birth parents in the United Kingdom lost a court battle over plans by a gay couple... Read More

Commonweal, Catholicism, and Same-Sex Marriage, Part 2

Yesterday, we introduced this two-part series on Commonweal magazine’s continued conversation about Joseph Bottum’s 2013 essay... Read More

Commonweal, Catholicism, and Same-Sex Marriage, Part 1

Last August, Commonweal magazine published an intriguing article entitled  “The Things We Share:  A Catholic’s Case for Same-Sex... Read More

Catholic Bishops and U.S. Evangelicals Make Strange Bedfellows

One of the more unusual political alliances that has developed over the past two decades... Read More