ANALYSIS: Can gay Catholics find a home in the Catholic Church?

David Gibson

NEW YORK (RNS) When Cardinal Timothy Dolan used the morning talk shows on Easter Sunday to say the Catholic Church could do a better job of welcoming gays and lesbians, his remarks were hailed by one activist as an “Easter miracle” and by another as an encouraging “first step.”
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Study suggests bad World War II experiences led vets to church

Kimberly Winston | May 23, 2013

(RNS) A new study has found that American veterans who had a negative experience serving during World War II attend church more frequently today than those who were less troubled by their service.
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Gay Mormon characters step out of the shadows

Kellie Kotroba | May 22, 2013

(RNS) Twenty years ago, a gay Mormon character stepped onstage for the first time. His name was Joe Pitt, and he was in Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches.”
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Godless funerals thrive in ‘post-Catholic’ Ireland

Paresh Dave | May 21, 2013

DUBLIN (RNS) Patricia Wojnar left a 32-year career in interior design to pursue a degree that wasn’t in demand: a master’s in bereavement studies.
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Can grief be a mental illness? With new diagnostic changes, maybe

Tim Townsend | May 20, 2013

(RNS) Each year 90,000 parents in the U.S. confront the profound suffering that follows the death of a child or adolescent.
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Do Americans really care how their clothes are made?

Calum MacLeod | May 20, 2013

DHAKA, Bangladesh (RNS) Just two more months, the daughter promised her mother by telephone, then she’d be home for good.
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VIDEO:The Gathering in Waterbury: a celebration of diversity

Ann Marie Somma | May 18, 2013

The Gathering in Waterbury drew thousands to celebrate the city's ethnic diversity.
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Catholics split on proposed gay Boy Scouts change

Aaron Schrank | May 17, 2013

(RNS) Paul Sefranek is a lifelong Roman Catholic and a long-serving volunteer in the Boy Scouts of America — two parts of his identity that have always been in harmony.
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Human cloning breakthrough prompts religious objections

David Gibson | May 15, 2013

(RNS) News that scientists had for the first time recovered stem cells from cloned human embryos prompted dire warnings from religious leaders who say the research crosses a moral red line and could lead to designer babies.
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