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Fr. James Martin plays rhetorical games with the truth about transgenderism

May 25, 2022 David Laidlaw 48

“What accounts for the Catholic Church’s recent focus on transgender people?” asks Father James Martin, S.J., in a May 17th essay at the new LGBTQ website, Outreach.faith, promoted by Martin and managed by America Magazine. […]

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The queer perspective and flawed anthropology of Eve Tushnet

April 11, 2022 David Laidlaw 91

Writer Eve Tushnet, who says of herself that “being gay and Catholic is literally my job” has written a followup to her 2014 book Gay and Catholic: Accepting My Sexuality, Finding Community, Living My Faith. […]

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Prior to Pope Benedict XVI’s recent trip to Lebanon, National Catholic Register contributor Edward Pentin interviewed the Egyptian scholar Fr. Samir Khalil Samir, S.J., author of 111 Questions on Islam (Ignatius Press, 2008). While some […]

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