The dome of St. Peter's Basilica is seen in the distance as people attend the Family Day rally at the Circus Maximus in Rome Jan. 30. The rally was held to oppose a bill in the Italian Senate that would allow civil unions for homosexual and heterosexual couples (CNS photo/Paul Haring) In the [...]
While the traditional family is beset by storms, civil society is encouraging and celebrating new forms of unionsThe bishops call the crisis of the family a “challenge” — but it’s a life-or-death emergency I’ve read, in the original, the final relatio of the synod of bishops, on the Church’s mission to the family. Let me say [...]
Demonstrators protesting a same-sex marriage bill outside the parliament building in London on June 3, 2013. The House of Lords was debating a bill to allow two people of the same gender to marry in England and Wales. The House of Commons approved the bill in May 2013 (CNS photo/Toby Melville, Reuters) The anthropology [...]
June 26, 2015, Friday — US Supreme Court Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage in All 50 States "Marriages" between two men or two women today were "legalized" in all 50 states of the United States -- even in states which had forbidden it up to now -- following a 5-4 US Supreme Court ruling released this morning, June [...]
January 3, 2013, Thursday -- Cardinal George's Analysis The Cardinal Archbishop of Chicago, Francis George, O.M.I., has published a clear, thoughtful, "must read" analysis of "what is at stake" in the approval by some states in the United States -- in his case, in Illinois -- of homosexual marriages as legal. Here below is the text [...]
