Sitemap - 2021 - Chris Damian writes
Newsletter #11: deconstruction in Advent
Catholicism and conversion therapy: how I survived
Conversion therapy and Catholicism: a conversation with Christopher Dowling
Our Archdiocesan Synod's missed opportunities
Newsletter #10: a complicated Thanksgiving
Victims, Perpetrators, and the Perspective of the Church
Newsletter #9: My parents' friends who died of AIDS
Newsletter #8: harming the poor by helping the poor
My diocese’s seminarians went through conversion therapy, and didn’t know it
Getting to the root of conversion therapy
Subscriber preview: ex-gay advocacy in the Catholic Church
Newsletter #7: Is it okay to be white?
ToB Catholics primed me to reject the Church’s approach to homosexuality
Christopher West, Jason Evert, and conversion therapy
Newsletter #6: Can reporters be "objective"
The State and the disobedient Christian
In Where Peter Is: Rethinking Religion in Professional Life
Newsletter #5: rewriting history
Newsletter #4: how spiritual manipulation works
In a pandemic, who gets to complain the loudest?
Gay Catholic Disclosure as Civil Disobedience
How can Catholics help the people of Afghanistan?
Newsletter #3: 'Merely entertaining' and Theology of the Body
Are the criticisms of Simone Biles racist?
Newsletter #2: Catholics love fighting
The Pillar Controversy: A List of Problems
Newsletter #1: Breaking Down the Church
A gay Catholic who loves the Extraordinary Form
LGBTQ history: Catholic opposition to the Briggs Initiative
When masturbation isn’t about “inordinate sexual desire”
Clergy abuse, diocesan response, and moral duplicity
I’m a brown homeowner in a racially segregated city
Homosexuality and the clergy abuse crisis: an overview
Why Christian apologists give such bad advice
Catholicism needs trauma-informed approaches to sexual abuse
I was threatened because of my sexuality
Parish Priests, Stock Traders, and their Limited Moral Reasoning
The CDF Moves Towards Affirming Same-Sex Relationships
Why your bishop didn’t read Aquinas
Why would canon lawyers support “preferred pronouns”?
Why Catholic arguments about trans persons don’t work
In what ways am I "conservative"?
Eating disorders, objective disorder, and gay in the Church
When the Liberals Come for the Church, and Changing Fears of Violence