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Religious faith and pornography should never have gotten intertwined in my mind. But something bad that happened last summer has made me consider the unsavory links between patriarchy in its “holy” and egregiously unholy forms.
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Calls from the bus station can come at 2 a.m. for two Christian centers run by women, one in Texas, the other in Tennessee. The job is to keep the lights on for female ex-cons with nowhere else to go.
The rise of Christian adoption brings millions of new advocates supporting an industry often marked by ambiguous goals and dirty money, says Kathryn Joyce in this excerpt from “The Child Catchers.” Like with all adoptions, it also makes the birthmother invisible.
Christian churches don’t do nearly enough for the growing number of women struggling to raise children on their own. Advocates are trying to change that.
Jennifer Knapp and Marsha Stevens, both top-billed Christian singers at one point, went public about being lesbian decades apart. But Knapp’s recent rejection has been just as harsh as it was for Stevens in 1980.
“He” and “mankind” have been dropping from some religious texts in favor of gender-neutral terms. Lacking a papal initiative, priests who modify the Catholic liturgy are doing it one by one.
A religious think tank has issued a manifesto about breaking the silence in religious communities about a host of sexuality issues. It hasn’t stirred much media attention, but Frederick Clarkson thinks it could be revolutionary.
Catholic reformers hope to restore passages praising Mary and other biblical women to the lectionary used in Sunday Mass. A Vatican synod in October called for a review, providing them hope that women may gain a bigger role in church teachings.
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Catholic women marched in Rome to denounce the church’s ban against female priests, the Associated Press reported Oct. 16. In May, the Vatican reiterated its stance against female ordination and said women who take part will be excommunicated.
Lithuania’s parliament could soon vote on one of the most restrictive abortion bans in Europe. If it passes, pro-choice advocates predict women who can’t afford to travel out of the country will turn to unsafe underground abortions.