Polygamy & Polyamory

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (972+ words) May 11, 2026 Ngala Killian Chimtom Features, Special Report 0 Print (CWR | Yaounde) Pope Leo XIV’s recent visit to Africa has reignited debate over the Church’s pastoral approach to polygamy. During an April 16, 2026, address at St. Joseph’s Metropolitan Cathedral in Bamenda, Fon Fru…...

4+ mon, 4+ week ago   (652+ words) I made a bold statement in 2014 that the next battleground in the moral revolution was going to be polyamory. Maybe it wasn’t all that bold, since Newsweek magazine said the same thing in 2009. Now it looks like both of us…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1371+ words) Portland is the latest US city to codify polyamorous rights in housing, jobs and public spaces, and more could follow Amy Nash-Kille knows that not everyone would choose a polyamorous family like hers. But she called it the “greatest blessing…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1391+ words) March 30, 2026 ACI Africa News Briefs 0 Print The final report addressing the pastoral challenge of polygamy in Africa draws attention to a wide range of social, cultural, and pastoral realities shaping the practice across the continent. NAIROBI, Kenya — In addition to…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1265+ words) By ACI Africa Staff Nairobi, 25 March, 2026 / 11:27 am (ACI Africa). Beyond theological reflections on marriage and the sacraments, the final report addressing the pastoral challenge of polygamy in Africa, which members of the Symposium of Episcopal Conference of Africa and Madagascar…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (497+ words) The General Secretariat of the Synod, led by Cardinal Mario Grech, released the fourth and fifth of 15 final reports of the study groups established by Pope Francis during the synod on synodality. “To Hear the Cry of the Poor and…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (623+ words) THE CATHOLIC CHURCH in Africa has said it will not baptise people in polygamous relationships and that polygamists will have to “commit to monogamous marriage before receiving baptism”. At the historic Synod that was convened by the late Pope Francis,…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago   (1004+ words) Two Vatican study groups associated with the synod on synodality released on March 24 their final reports, with one focused on polygamy and the other “the cry of the poor and the earth.” The polygamy study group, composed of members of…...

6+ mon, 4+ week ago   (509+ words) Do you remember when polygamy was retrograde and conservative? You only have to go back to about 13 years, when the gay marriage debate was hitting its climax. If we rewrote the definition of marriage, some conservatives argued, it wouldn’t end…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago   (115+ words) People involved in polyamorous relationships are seeking legal protections for their “family structure” in highly liberal cities in the Pacific Northwest. Specifically, they are seeking to protect their relationships, including “consensual nonmonogamy,” via nondiscrimination laws. (READ MORE: Polyamory in Somerville…...