Tag: Fr. James Martin

97: Fielding a Big “Team Catholic”

97: Fielding a Big “Team Catholic”

There’s a lot of in-fighting in the Catholic world, among traditional Catholics, among conservative Catholics, and particularly between traditional and conservative Catholics. In this episode, I go full Rodney King and ask, “Can we...

59: Catholics and Gay Pride Month

59: Catholics and Gay Pride Month

This month is “Gay Pride Month,” so of course Fr. James Martin is out there as the pied piper for the gay rights movement. But how should Catholics actually respond to Gay Pride Month? The standard response is “love the sinner...

56: The Forked Tongue of Fr. James Martin

56: The Forked Tongue of Fr. James Martin

Fr. James Martin has made a career of skirting the fine line between implicitly criticizing Church teaching without explicitly rejecting it. But even when he is explaining Church teaching, as he did in a recent America Magazine article...