As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the issue of same-sex marriage, 11 lawmakers have re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act which will protect states from any efforts by the federal government to impose a definition of marriage that is not supported by democratically-elected state legislatures.
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The fifth annual “Index of Family Belonging and Rejection”, which tracks the number of 15 to 17 year-olds who grow up with married biological parents, has found record numbers of teens living in broken families.
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In a bold message posted on the Archdiocesan
Facebook page, Cincinnati’s Archbishop Dennis Schnurr condemns the controversial Fifty Shades of Grey movie, calling it a “direct assault on Christian marriage.”
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New research published this month in a prestigious British journal is the largest study to date that finds poor outcomes for children who were raised by same-sex parents.
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Officials at the Monessen School District in Pennsylvania are investigating how eighth grade students were given graphic word puzzles that were based on the
Fifty Shades of Grey movie.
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Even though the U.S. Supreme Court intervened to allow same-sex couples in Alabama to marry in spite of a voter approved ban on the practice, the state’s chief justice ordered all state judges to refuse to do so – and most of them are complying!
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Doctors fighting to resuscitate a 14 year-old drowning victim say the boy’s heart mysteriously started beating again just seconds after his mother invoked the Holy Spirit.
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If you have friends or family who have fallen for the so-called “romance” in the sexually violent book and upcoming film,
Fifty Shades of Grey, this new website provides useful talking points as well as more appropriate ways to fight violence against women in our world today.
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That plastic surgery can be a form of aggression against women is just one of many interesting subjects to be discussed at next week’s plenary assembly on women, led by the Pontifical Council for Culture.
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In keeping with his catechesis on the family, Pope Francis turned to the subject of fatherhood during his General Audience yesterday, saying that we are now a “society without fathers” and warning about the dire consequences of allowing this to continue.
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As the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to hear arguments on the issue of same-sex marriage, 11 lawmakers have re-introduced the State Marriage Defense Act which will protect states from any efforts by the federal government to impose a definition of marriage that is not supported by democratically-elected state legislatures.
