The federal government doesn’t recognize gay marriage. So when his visa expires next year de Leon, 44, a doctoral student from the Philippines, cannot start the process of becoming a citizen, an option available to spouses of heterosexual U.S. citizens.
The Anglican Church in Sydney is in diabolical trouble. Already battered by the global financial crisis, the diocese is planning further savage spending cuts.
In its loving description of the most ordinary events like sleeping and the most ordinary objects like knives, the Rule of St. Benedict invites a rich way of seeing. Your hours of sleep continue the rhythm of the Rule, made holy by the act of consecration of your life to God. Your trip to the supermarket is a pilgrimage.
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. military to stop enforcing the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, putting an end to the ban on openly gay troops.
Our previous item on the placement practices of the Catholic Diocese of Chicago can be looked at from the perspective of the Nobel prize in economics awarded for work in job matching. Why might priests who have been credibly accused of child abuse be assigned to churches in neighborhoods where there are a relatively high proportion of minorities, and relatively low income?
The pattern shows that the 97 priests, credibly accused of sexual abuse, who could be tracked served at approximately 60% of the Chicago parishes from 1917 through 2009. …the assignments seem to cluster in the less-wealthy parishes and in those that primarily serve minority communities.
Today is the 12th anniversary of the death of CBS News about the current deaths by suicide of victims of bullying.
The Episcopal Diocese of Georgia
We urge you to acknowledge the contribution of so many LGBT people, often partnered, to the ministry of the church, and to promote rigorous and prayerful study of the issues involved in the light of present knowledge.