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Commonweal Editor Calls Church Teaching on LGBTQ Sexuality Harmful and Distracting

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The U.S. Catholic hierarchy’s insistence on opposing same-gender marriage distracts its leaders and laity from speaking out against other moral shortcomings, says a Commonweal editor in a recent column. Read More

Always Our Children: 20 Years Later

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Twenty years ago today, on October 1, 1997, the U.S. bishops’ Committee on Marriage and Family issued "Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children AND Suggestions for Pastoral Ministers." What did this document contribute to the discussion of LGBT issues in the Catholic Church? And what is its impact today? Read More

The Road to LGBT Change in the Catholic Church Won’t Be a Straight One

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Pope Francis’ remarks about lesbian and gay people are bound to bring about change in... Read More

How Threatened Is Religious Liberty?

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LGBT issues are central to the campaign that the U.S. bishops have been mounting to... Read More