A recent conference series on “Sexual Diversity and the Catholic Church,” held at two Catholic universities as well as two secular institutions, was subsidized by a foundation with a long history of support for homosexual attacks on Catholic Church teaching, the Cardinal Newman Society has discovered. Read more…
The Catholic Bishops of Maryland have issued a statement, “The Most Sacred of All Property: Religious Freedom and the People of Maryland.”
Despite its title, the principles it lays out and the examples it uses are applicable to the entire United States. People of all faiths, not just Catholics, will find it a helpful defense when faced with marriage and family issues.
Read it here.
STATEMENT OF MOST REVEREND EDWARD K. BRAXTON, BISHOP OF BELLEVILLE, MOST REVEREND R. DANIEL CONLON, BISHOP OF JOLIET, AND
MOST REVEREND THOMAS JOHN PAPROCKI, BISHOP OF SPRINGFIELD IN ILLINOIS REGARDING THE ENDING OF APPEALS OF FOSTER CARE LITIGATION
It is with deep regret that we have decided to relinquish our appeals in the litigation concerning the provision of foster care and adoption services by Catholic Charities of the Dioceses of Joliet and Springfield in Illinois and by Catholic Social Services of Southern Illinois in the Diocese of Belleville. This lawsuit had sought clarification as to whether the Religious Freedom Protection and Civil Unions Act passed at the end of last year protected the freedom of faith-based agencies to provide foster care and adoption services in accord with their religious beliefs. Read more…
by Charlie Butts and Bob Kellogg
After 90 years of assisting in providing foster care for children, Catholic Charities of Illinois has been forced to cease services.
The problem began with passage of the Illinois civil unions law for same-gender pairs, which led the state to force Christian foster care and adoption organizations to consider homosexual couples, even though that is contrary to basic Christian doctrine. Catholic Charities filed suit, but the state has already begun transferring the children out. Read more…
Obama’s Catholic outreach is being revealed as a transparent ploy a year before he faces re-election. A portion of the Democratic coalition — including civil libertarians and pro-choice activists — has decided to attack and marginalize Catholic leaders and institutions. And HHS is actively siding against Catholic organizations. Read more…
Early last month, President Obama bragged to a St. Louis crowd about the recent Health and Human Services’ regulations that will require thousands of religious employers to pay for contraception, sterilization and drugs that probably cause abortions. The crowd cheered the president’s contraceptive mandate. He joined their revelry, shouting, “Darn Tootin’!” to the crowd’s delight. Read more…
NEW YORK, November 8, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Following the legalization of same-sex “marriage” in New York in June, Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan has issued an official statement banning the use of Roman Catholic churches, facilities or properties for homosexual “marriage” ceremonies. Read more…
Given the expressed intent of the Founding Fathers in establishing a free, just and virtuous society, the importance of morality as its foundation, and their recourse to God from the beginning through recent history…it’s remarkable that we are in this battle now. Read more…
from Rome Reports
If your marriage were a sport, which one would it be and why? It may seem like an odd question, but it definitely leads to interesting answers. In the video above people say:
Oh, what sport? Basketball. Read more…
By: Jim Tonkowich
“Treat yourself,” my friend said. “It will be a shot in the arm for your marriage.” He was encouraging me to read Pius XI’s December 1930 encyclical, Casti Connubii (Chaste Marriage). As it turns out, it’s more than a treat. It’s strong medicine for what ails marriage more than eighty years after it was penned. Read more…
The UN wants young people to change the world. In Madrid the Pope will ask them to change themselves.
Today, a thousand or so youth activists from around the world gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for a high level meeting on the theme of “dialogue and mutual understanding”. The two-day UN youth summitmarks the culmination of an international Year of Youth that began last August and ends on the annual UN World Youth Day, August 12th. Read more…
Steve Gershom (a pseudonym) is a gay Catholic man in his late twenties. His blog, stevegershom.com, has been around for some months, but he has just decided to make it public. It’s original, funny, poignant — and culturally important. You can also find him on Twitter as stevegershom. I am profoundly grateful to Steve for agreeing to write this post for the Bubble. Read more…
by ARCHBISHOP TIMOTHY DOLAN
Almost two weeks ago — hauntingly, on the Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist, whom King Herod would behead because the saint dared to defend the God-given truth about marriage — our state sadly attempted a re-definition of marriage.
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Is there anything left to say?
Yes. Read more…
After one year as president of the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., John Garvey took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to announce a change in his university’s policy for housing students on campus: a return to all-male and all-female residence halls, and the gradual elimination of mixed-sex buildings. According to the Washington Post, Catholic University first changed to “co-ed” housing over two decades ago and currently houses both sexes in eleven of its seventeen residence halls—though men and women remain in separate floors or wings, unlike the latest fashion of shared suites, bathrooms, and even sleeping quarters at some universities. Read more…
The Catholic University of America generated much press last week when its president announced that, beginning next year, it would transition to single-sex only housing. Considering that such a move was previously unheard-of, the attention wasn’t shocking. Read more…
Now that we lost a big one in New York,
I have an idea: let’s all the social conservatives stand around in a circle and criticize each other. NOT! I stumbled over two separate social conservatives criticizing the Catholic Church in New York for not doing enough, here and here. These articles were mostly repeats of a New York Times article, with virtually nothing in the way of original reporting. (Why we should repeat the talking points of our enemies is beyond me.) Others seem to think that if we could just get the arguments right, we might have won. I don’t agree with that assessment, in spite of the fact that I spend a lot of effort trying to craft the best possible arguments.
The very same New York Times article which the critics of the Church Read more…
Critics of the Catholic Church claim that the Church wields authoritarian control over all its members. The Pope and the bishops ruthlessly suppress all dissent, debate or disobedience.
To those who think this way, I have two words: Andrew Cuomo.
Andrew Cuomo, Governor of New York, lives in the Governor’s Mansion with a woman to whom he is not married. The Catholic Church holds that he is living in a state of mortal sin.
The Catholic Church holds that marriage was instituted by God in the Garden of Eden, and that marriage is the lifelong union of a man and a woman, ordered toward the procreation and education of children and the mutual good of the spouses.
Andrew Cuomo pressured the legislature of New York to change the definition of marriage to the union of any two persons, instituted by His Divine Self in the Garden of Albany, ordered toward no particular purpose at all.
If the Church were the ruthlessly conformist authoritarian institution she is taken to be, you might think someone in authority would have something to say to Andrew Cuomo. He is an excellent candidate to be asked to go elsewhere to meet his spiritual and religious needs, such as they are.
No one in authority has made this rather obvious suggestion to him. Perhaps some ordinary New York Catholics ought to politely ask him to get lost.
By Michelle Laque Johnson
Click here to view a video of Dr. Morse speaking.
People who promote same-sex marriage say the Catholic Church’s stand that marriage is a sacrament that must be between one man and one woman is gay-bashing. Why, they ask, should it matter to you if two people of the same sex get married? Love is love, right? Read more…
For those of our readers in the Kansas/Missouri area:
MARRIAGE AND CATHOLIC HEALTHCARE. This summer’s “Catholic Healthcare Identity: Medical and Pastoral Strategies” conference at Benedictine College is the NFP Outreach National Summer Institute. The conference, lasting from July 11-16, offers college credit for educators and/or continuing medical education credits for doctors and continuing education units for nurses. Keynote speakers include:
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