Catholicism & Same-Sex Marriage

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Not Worth a Cake?

It’s hard to see how a baker’s claim to religious freedom doesn’t amount to discrimination

December 7, 2017

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The Scandal of Firing LGBT Catholics

Punitive actions against LGBT Catholics do not reflect the fact that we are at a moment that requires prayerful discernment

February 16, 2018

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Pomp & Circumstances

For supporters of same-sex marriage, Obergefell is definitely a victory. But the victory is not primarily one for the Supreme Court—or for Justice Anthony Kennedy.

July 10, 2015

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The thin notions of natural law deployed against same-sex marriage in recent times are unpersuasive, and, what’s more, they deserve to be unpersuasive

The Things We Share

August 23, 2013

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The More You Know

Nothing has changed me as much as being friends with gay people has. The theory, the doctrine, the dogma: it all disappears in the face of friendship and love.

By Jo McGowan

July 29, 2015

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Engagement or Retreat?

It's one thing to urge the church to prepare for political defeat on same-sex marriage, another to say it should preemptively cease to even make the argument.

By Ross Douthat

May 28, 2014

U.S. Catholicism

Continuing the Conversation

LGBTQ issues

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Engagement or Retreat?

The church should revise its attitude toward same-sex relationships; American Catholics should accept recognition of same-sex marriage because they are Catholics.

By Jamie L. Manson

May 29, 2014

U.S. Catholicism

Continuing the Conversation

LGBTQ issues

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Engagement or Retreat?

Our problem as Catholics isn’t that same-sex marriage somehow uniquely represents Western society’s recent turns; our problem is those turns themselves.

By Joseph Bottum

May 30, 2014

U.S. Catholicism

Continuing the Conversation

LGBTQ issues

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Two Steps Back

The forced resignation of the widely respected Tony Spence, who had a long history of serving the Catholic press, raises questions about changes at the USCCB.

May 3, 2016

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Unity, Growth & Love in the Church

The exhortation is a valiant and powerful exercise in the Petrine ministry of upholding church unity. Is it another starting point in Francis's pontificate?

April 13, 2016

Secularism and Modernity