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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The family of slain American hostage, Kayla Mueller, 26, have released a letter she wrote to her family in the spring of 2014 which reveals her intense struggle against the darkness of despair, the depth of her love for her family, and the brilliance of her faith in God.
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Plans to detonate a bomb as the papal convoy drove through Manila on January 18 were foiled when police discovered the plot and secretly re-routed the pope’s motorcade.
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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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While addressing members of a plenary assembly on women in Rome on Saturday, Pope Francis said the time to rise to the challenge of finding new ways for women to be full participants in both social and ecclesial life “can no longer be postponed.”
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As the Valentine’s Day premier of the violent sado-masochistic film,
Fifty Shades of Grey nears, tens of thousands of Americans have joined a growing coalition of groups that are accusing
NBC Universal of “using a romantic holiday to promote a movie about abuse and degradation."
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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.
