Michael G. Lawler is Amelia and Emil Graff Chair Professor Emeritus of Catholic Theology at Creighton University.

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Omaha Archdiocese's new school policy alienates LGBTQ+ Catholics

Commentary: A new "Policy on Human Sexuality" ignores the synodal message of welcome and supports discrimination against students, parents, employees and volunteers at Catholic schools in Omaha, Nebraska.

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The Catholic Church must listen to transgender and intersex people

Commentary: Transgender and intersex persons are not sinners, but they are lost sheep in the wilderness of the church, which continues to affirm only the female-male binary to which it attaches unchangeable gender.

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Can U.S. bishops' support of discrimination against LGBT be sustained?

Commentary: The U.S. bishops' conference continues to assert the fundamental human dignity of all human beings while maintaining that there can be not "unjust discrimination" against LGBT persons. Catholic social teaching is clear: discrimination on the basis of sex or gender is always unjust and immoral.

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The end of the affair? 'Humanae Vitae' at 50

Humanae Vitae: On July 29, 1968, Pope Paul VI published his encyclical on the regulation of birth, introducing what we call here the Humanae Vitae affair. Now approaching its golden jubilee, the encyclical was published at a time of twofold crisis, one theological, the other cultural.