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Whose fault is it?

April Feng | Friday, February 19, 2016

It was a sunny afternoon in Washington D.C., and I was at my favorite Starbucks, holding a cup of hot chocolate with extra whipped cream. It was a busy day for the café shop. Every seat was occupied. As I looked for my favorite spot — the table in the corner next to the window

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A paradigm of love

Michael Rangel | Friday, January 22, 2016

There seems to me to be a great struggle within the Catholic Church over how to integrate members of our community who are gay or lesbian. Too often, a cursory examination of the Church’s theology appears to offer no hope for love, acceptance, aspiration or peace to the homosexual person. Yet it is inconceivable that

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What’s good? Women supporting women

Jennifer Vosters | Thursday, September 24, 2015

It could have been a comedy: celebrity No. 1 dishes about celebrity No. 2 in an interview; celebrity No. 2 calls out celebrity No. 1 on live television (with celebrity No. 3 cheering in the background); America celebrates. Except it was the VMAs (which could be classified as a comedy based on the outfits), and celebrity No. 1 was Miley