News of the pope’s pending resignation sparked much commentary on America’s Web site. Here we offer a selection of the responses. To take part in the discussion, visit americamagazine.org.It is revealing the different decisions made by saints and popes facing similar conditions. The uniq

At the University of Notre Dame gay and lesbian students will soon have a campus-wide organization responding to their needs while the Catholic University of America announced yesterday it would not accept student-driven drive for such a group Notre Dame following a months-long review process an

My recent post on the increasing use of queer as a term of dignity on Catholic college and university campuses for some LGBT persons and allies evoked numerous replies I want to let readers know that an updated statement about the use of queer at clubs at Fordham can be found here Not just

Friday October 19 is a big day for Catholics especially for Jesuits and their colleagues It is the Feast of the North American Martyrs which commemorates such spiritual giants as St Isaac Jogues St Jean de Br eacute beuf and their brother Jesuits all of whom worked with the Native peoples in

The recent legislative endorsement of same-sex marriage here in New York and the tension between the official Catholic opposition to it and what appears to be fairly strong support for it by lay Catholics has me thinking about what it takes to do theology from non-normative if you will perspecti

The Republic At War; Love One Another; Friend Request

Certain exclusions apply see your local diocese for details The Boston Globe reports on a Catholic parish in a gay neighborhood of the city that had planned to hold a Mass proclaiming that all are welcome to have its plans scrapped by the archdiocese following complaints from anonymous conservat

You won rsquo t be surprised to discover that we get all kinds of crazy letters here nbsp And I don rsquo t mean simply letters that seem odd or strange or even letters that I don t fully understand mdash I mean crazy nbsp As a Jesuit friend told me last night ldquo No nut like a religious nu

The National Day of Silence is being celebrated on April 15th Where I teach it was celebrated a week early due to a very busy college schedule In class I called on one of my students who instead handed me this note Please understand my reasons for not speaking today I am participating in the Day

I see from recent posts here that the More Than a Monologue Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church series of conferences at Fordham University Union Theological Seminary Yale Divinity School and Fairfield University is already getting some attention The conferences which will focus on LG