The Rev. Thomas J. Massaro was associate professor of moral theology at Weston Jesuit School of Theology in Cambridge, Mass. He wrote Catholic Social Teaching and United States Welfare Reform (Liturgical Press, 1998). He also co-wrote the article “Compassion in Action: A Letter to President Bush on Social Policy” for the journal America (2001). Massaro became the Dean of Jesuit […]

July 9, 2009, NBCNews.com blog post about a faith-based group that was opposed to the Boy Scouts of America’s decision regarding gay members starting an alternative group to the Boy Scouts.

Read the New York Times obituary here.

Read The Washington Post obituary, “Oral Roberts, 91; trailblazing, empire-building evangelist.”

Read The Los Angeles Times obituary, “Televangelist Oral Roberts dies; pioneering preacher of the ‘prosperity gospel’ was 91.”

Cole Durham is Emeritus Professor of Law at the J. Reuben Clark Law School at Brigham Young University, where he held the Susa Young Gates University Professorship. He is founding Director of the Law School’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies. From its official organization on January 1, 2000, until May 1, 2016, Professor […]

Read Charisma magazine’s obituary.

Cristina Traina is a religion professor at Northwestern University in Chicago whose work in Christian theology and ethics includes an emphasis on Roman Catholic and feminist thought.  She has written about her experiences as a married Catholic woman dealing with church teachings on artificial contraception.

June 25, 2009, Associated Press article posted on FoxNews.com about the “exorcism” of a gay teenager by a group of Connecticut church elders in 2009. The article includes video of the “exorcism.”