The Vatican Secretariat of State has sent an explanatory note to nuncios around the world insisting that when Pope Francis spoke about civil unions, he was not changing or challenging "the doctrine of the church, ...
Contributing editor Russell Shaw writes about Pope Francis’ comments that showed support for legalizing civil unions between same-sex couples. However, Shaw writes that to equate the Church’s doctrine with policy is classic legalism. After all, ...
In an essay for Our Sunday Visitor, John S. Grabowski, an associate professor of moral theology and ethics at The Catholic University of America, writes that the media at large has neither the ability or ...
Pope Francis' expression of openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions, including for gay couples, to protect their rights does not change church teaching on marriage as being between one woman and one ...
Pope Francis often has expressed openness to the idea of laws recognizing civil unions, including for gay couples, to protect their rights. The pope's comments in a brief passage in the documentary film, "Francesco," are similar ...
After the Supreme Court on Monday ruled that LGBT persons deserve protection against employment discrimination under federal civil rights laws, Catholic scholars who spoke to Our Sunday Visitor said that federal courts will be dealing ...
In his column this week, Monsignor Owen Campion writes that, after all the justified appeals for kindness toward others, and realizing that the civil laws in this country and in many other countries now see ...
In a recent dialogue with Archbishop Charles J. Chaput of Philadelphia, Father James Martin said that he is trying to “encourage Catholics to see LGBTQ people as more than just sexual beings, to see them ...
On the second day of the Supreme Court's new term, a divided court Oct. 8 heard oral arguments from three cases concerning protections for gay, lesbian and transgender employees under Title VII of the Civil ...
INDIANAPOLIS (CNS) — The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a “statement of interest” in a lawsuit brought against the Archdiocese of Indianapolis by a teacher fired from his job at a Catholic high school ...
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