The contemporary crisis of masculinity is often framed in reactionary terms—“men are lost,” “men are under attack,” “bring back real men.” Within Catholic...
Sex and sexuality
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on sex and sexuality—faith-based reflections, guidance, and insights on relationships, intimacy, and moral teaching.
Listen on: Apple | Spotify This episode of Just Politics sounds a little different—and that’s the point. Rather than diving into our usual policy...
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Kirby Hoberg noticed that her pastor began to give, in her words, “a lot of strange homilies.” These included “homilies that...
Angela Denker is an author and the pastor of Visitation and Public Theology at Lake Nokomis Lutheran Church in Minneapolis. In 2022, David Brooks published a...
The cliché of the young man in his mother’s basement spending hours playing video games has taken hold of our imagination, but sadly this cliché has real-world...
I had recently given birth to my second child when I first encountered the idea of the “marriage debt.” My ex and I were Catholic converts, and we had become...
“Who do you say I am?” asks Jesus in Luke’s gospel (9:20). His words imply he’s not interested in doctrine or theology. He wants a personal response, not a...
Five of my nine pregnancies were the result of trying to use NFP (natural family planning) with a man who became drunk and abusive towards me and the children...
Robert Harris is a 33-year-old Black, queer Catholic in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He came to Catholicism at 14, around the time he began developing an awareness of...
The short answer to this question is no. Gender is something that belongs to humans; God is beyond gender. But because we believe in a personal God, and people...
