LGBT

Pope Leo is right to insist that morality is wider than sex alone, but that truth should not lead Catholics to minimise the profound social and spiritual damage of sexual sin

Anthony McCarthy

A landmark ruling against Hungary’s 2021 child-protection law has sharpened the dispute between Brussels and Budapest over who defines Europe’s moral and legal limits

The Catholic Herald

Without formally undoing Fiducia Supplicans, Pope Leo XIV appears to have drawn tighter limits around its interpretation and pastoral use

James Bradbury

Speaking aboard the papal plane, Leo XIV said any move beyond the present limits on blessings for same-sex couples would risk deepening division in the Church

Edward Barrett-Shortt

Cardinal Reinhard Marx has instructed clergy in Munich to follow a new pastoral framework for blessing same-sex couples

Thomas Colsy

A provocative collection asks what becomes of a subculture defined by transgression when the mainstream abandons its own rules

Joseph Shaw

Court rulings, malpractice lawsuits and new legislation are beginning to challenge the legal foundations of transgender policy in the United States

Ken Craycraft

A reader asks whether there is a place for him in the Church as a single man experiencing same-sex attraction, and how he might live out intimacy and companionship in fidelity to Catholic teaching

Chaplain