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A Queer Easter Sunday: A Reflection by Dr. Ish Ruíz

by CLGS

On Easter Sunday 2025, I went to Mass at Most Holy Redeemer Catholic Church in San Francisco’s Castro gayborhood. I walked through boisterous streets—I remember it was on 4/20, so the smell of weed was already in the air—and into a packed church. The liturgy was beautiful: flowers, music, incense, bodies gathered. The homily was […]

Love in the Seat of Empire: Black Diasporic Survival as a Radical Practice | A Reflection by Rev. Terence Mayo

by Bernard Schlager

7 February 2026 Under U.S. fascist rule, Black love is often described as a personal ethic of self-care, chosen family, and community resilience. But it is also transnational: a radical, border-crossing practice that insists we are bound to one another across oceans, languages, and histories of extraction. Black love becomes the discipline of seeing, hearing, […]