‘The Marriage of the Virgin’ is shown in a fresco in St. Augustine Church in Covington, Kentucky. (photo: Nheyob / CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons) This Sunday’s Gospel offers some fundamental ...

I’m sure you’ve heard this argument before. It’s a common argument in LGBT-affirming circles. It goes something like this: Since Jesus did not specifically address homosexuality, it is assumed that He ...

Pope Francis permitted priests to bless same-sex couples, signifying a shift in the Catholic Church’s approach toward LGBTQ parishioners, while also reinforcing the teaching that marriage is between a ...

A Vatican-issued declaration on blessing “same-sex couples” and couples in other “irregular situations” does not change the Catholic Church’s teaching that marriage is between a man and a woman, ...

When America’s Catholic bishops gather next week in Baltimore for a four-day conference, they will hear an update on the Catholic Church’s ongoing fight to convince the country that marriage as an ...

FILE - A necklace showing the Virgin Mary is seen around the neck of a woman wearing a t-shirt with a picture of Pope Francis, as she awaits his arrival at the St. Theresa Cathedral in Juba, South ...

Despite assertions of immutability and consistency, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’s positions on sexuality and gender have proven fragile and changeable across time. Throughout much ...

CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — In an extraordinary pushback against Pope Francis, some Catholic bishops in Africa, Poland and elsewhere say they will not implement the new Vatican policy allowing ...