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College contraception clash
The Jesuit-run Boston College has ordered an unofficial student group to stop distributing condoms on campus, leading to threats of a potential battle with the Massachusetts chapter of the ACLU, the...
View ArticleEncountering two Catholic Churches
With support for same-sex marriage growing and its legalization appearing inevitable, some senior Catholic prelates seem to be softening their tones. David Gibson reported on Cardinal Timothy Dolan’s...
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Preaching division
The Archdiocese of San Francisco, home to the head of the Catholic point man on marriage, Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, mocked marriage equality advocates on its Facebook page last week. When...
View ArticlePope Francis’ leadership lessons
Duke Divinity School’s Faith & Leadership asked me for some thoughts on how Pope Francis’s model of leadership might affect everyday Catholics, both those working in the church and those sitting in...
View ArticleMarriage and communion in Michigan
The Catholic Archbishop of Detroit said earlier this week that individuals who support same-sex marriage should not present themselves to receive communion, supporting a Detroit seminary professor and...
View ArticleTweets of the Day
The Catholic bishop of Salt Lake, Most Rev. John Wester, tweeted that gun culture runs contrary to the Catholic ethic of life: We advocate for the culture of life, for peace, for building the Kingdom...
View ArticleReflections on Boston (updated)
America’s funniest Catholic reacts in his unique way to the tragedy in Boston: Make sure to check out RNS’s Dan Burke’s reflection on running and the Boston Marathon. I posted some of my own thoughts...
View ArticleQuick guide to the Vatican
With the papal election, there were many questions about the Vatican, how it worked and what it was. Still have questions? Watch this: The post Quick guide to the Vatican appeared first on Faith Fix.
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Atheists at prayer? Thoughts on Boston’s healing
A swath of local religious leaders joined President Barack Obama and Governor Deval Patrick at an interfaith prayer service at Boston’s Cathedral of the Holy Cross this morning (watch video...
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Death penalty in Boston?
A section of the official transcript from today’s hearing. Click the image to read the full transcript. Today at a hospital in Boston, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings faced a...
View ArticleMajority favors death for Boston bomber
Last week, I wrote about Cardinal O’Malley’s statement just days after the Boston Marathon bombing that he, as both a Catholic and Bostonian, is against seeking the death penalty against the surviving...
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“We are not dirty.”
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral in New York. (from flickr user Allison Harger). A group of LGBT Catholics and their allies will attend the 10:15AM Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York on Sunday with a...
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Cardinal O’Malley to skip Boston College commencement
Cardinal Sean O’Malley. (From flickr user BostonCatholic). Cardinal Séan O’Malley of Boston informed the Boston College community this week that he will not attend commencement exercises because of a...
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Pope Francis on newsworthiness
I was pitching a story to a philanthropy reporter about an innovative product that a nonprofit was launching. When I finished explaining how it would transform the field, with little overhead and an...
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The New York Times and Francis’ liberation theology
Pope Francis waves from the pope-mobile during his inauguration Mass at St. Peter’s Square on Tuesday (March 19) at the Vatican. RNS photo by Andrea Sabbadini This image available for Web and print...
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Fr. Andrew Greeley on “Donahue”
Back in March 1993, nearly a decade before the Boston Globe brought national attention to the clergy sex abuse scandal, Phil Donahue devoted an episode of his show to the topic. One of the guests was...
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Ohio State president shown door after Catholic jokes
Gordon Gee will retire as president of the Ohio State University effective July 1, the school announced today, following a series of verbal gaffes that trustees said diverted attention away from OSU...
View Article#SayingSomethingPositive about LGBT Catholics
Every once in awhile, some Catholic bishops who lead the charge against same-sex marriage or other issues important to the LGBT community like to dial it back a bit. They might say something about God...
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“What Christians really are is not being captured by the press.”
Ira Glass. Ira Glass, the Jewish-agnostic host of public radio’s This American Life, discussed the disparity he notices between how Christians are covered in the secular press and how they actually...
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A Jesuit on LGBT issues and the Catholic Church
Paul Crowley, a Jesuit priest, teaches systematic theology at Santa Clara University. I spoke to him in October 2012 for an article entitled “Being Gay at a Catholic University,” published today at...
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