Clergy abuse, diocesan response, and moral duplicity
Many Catholics are committed to a sort of bourgeois church life, where conflicts which could upend communities and challenge the status quo are avoided and, thus, the problems are perpetuated.
Author: Chris Damian
I’m a brown homeowner in a racially segregated city
I’ve been thinking a lot about the impact of where I live, and how it would form the imaginations of children when it comes to race.
Why Christian apologists give such bad advice
They’ve severely underestimated the extent to which moral failures can be attributed to failures of imagination.
Gender and Otherness
Homosexuals are “lesser men“ because we are unable to truly appreciate “otherness,” which is found most fully in sexual difference.
LGBTQ Discrimination and Religious Freedom Seminar: Sign Up Now!
We’ll learn about and discuss religious freedom and LGBTQ discrimination in Catholic Social Teaching, USCCB legal briefings, and American law.
Catholicism needs trauma-informed approaches to sexual abuse
Responding to a victim of sexual assault is a matter of either trauma disruption or trauma creation.
I was threatened because of my sexuality
I had peers I got along with, but when their inhibitions went down, they saw me as a predator because of my sexuality and felt the need to threaten me because of this.
Parish Priests, Stock Traders, and their Limited Moral Reasoning
The parish priest is not an outpost of the CDF, however much he may want to be.
Stop Calling Out Homophobes
When the light is too bright it serves to blind, rather than to help people see.
The Archdiocese of Chicago Defends Harassment
“The church actually was entitled to conduct itself in a racist way in its relationship with the minister.”
