The Wild Reed

. Lately I've been to a lot of strategizing and planning meetings on defeating next November's "marriage amendment" – the...

Sexual abuse in seminaries and monasteries is a generational and systemic problem. It is the very point Richard Sipe and others have been...

Today is the tenth anniversary of what has come to be known as "9/11" – the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United St...

My friend Javen Swanson, pictured at right with his husband Oby Ballinger at July’s Basilica Block Party , is Field Organizer with OutFron...

Following are excerpts from Amy Goodman's TruthDig.com article, " 9/11 Victim 0001: Father Mychal’s Message ." . . . Father M...

. . . and, no, I'm not talking about the " glitter bombing " of the anti-marriage equality group, Minnesota for Marriage . Ra...

. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, America is evenly divided on the issue of gay marriage: 47 percent favor its legaliza...

Above: The Catholic Coalition for Church Reform ' s third annual "Evening in the Park" fundraiser at Lake Elmo Park Reserve ...

I continue to believe that the [Supreme] Court will rule, five-to-four, in an opinion authored by Justice Anthony Kennedy, that laws prohibi...

In a powerful op-ed in today's Star Tribune Ron Bates documents his journey growing up Catholic and gay. I have to say that I beli...

Peter Laird, the Vicar General of the Archdiocese of St. Paul-Minneapolis, has an op-ed in the August 26, 2011 issue of the Star Tribune ....

I previously shared this image in a January 2007 post and noted that it's entitled “The Glimpse of His Face at Morning.” It'...

. . . The Vatican’s orthodoxy watchdog department, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, has sharpened its focus on the way theolo...