Some of the thorniest issues relating to the human family have been discussed by the small working groups of the Synod over the past two weeks – now the time has come to find a consensus with which to move forward.
Houston Mayor Annise ParkerHouston’s battle over an equal rights ballot measure that would expand transgender access to public restrooms is part of a much wider plan to bring the same kind of legislation to every city in in America.
Interventions voiced by auditors of the Synod on the Family - delegates who participate in discussions but do not vote - gave a powerful glimpse into the families of the world – their hopes, their dreams, their failings and their triumphs.
Cardinal Angelo Scola of Milan, Italy, talks with German Cardinal Walter Kasper after an event marking the 50th anniversary of the Synod of Bishops in Paul VI hall at the Vatican Oct. 17. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)
Vatican journalists were greeted this morning in the Vatican press office with an emphatic denial that Pope Francis has a benign brain tumor. The report, from the Italian national newspaper Quotidiano Nazionale, contained titillating details, such as a hushed helicopter ride from Vatican City to Tuscany where a Japanese surgeon is reported to have met with the Holy Father. A second denial was published on the Vatican website.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDS“Progressive” Americans are once again proving their inability for civil discourse as they embark on a campaign to vilify and demonize the One Million Moms organization who are protesting a misleading ad by Campbell Soup which features a “heartwarming” look at two gay men and their child.
A new poll has found that Americans are embracing Pope Francis, not only in terms of their opinion of him, but because they agree with him on a host of issues, even those deemed “controversial” by the liberal media.
After several of its top doctors were caught on film trafficking in fetal body parts, Planned Parenthood affiliates in the state of Texas were stripped of their Medicaid funding yesterday.
Quinn and Landon on the day of their engagementTo make the best of what is certainly a bride’s worst nightmare, 27 year-old Quinn Duane decided to donate the wedding feast she planned to enjoy with her groom whose cold feet caused him to call off the wedding a week before the big day.
Commentary by Susan Brinkmann, OCDSA senior writer for the Planned Parenthood Federation of America published a column in The New York Times encouraging little girls to wear sexy Halloween costumes this year.
Dr. Anca-Marie CerneaSynod Fathers looking for answers to some of the most pressing problems regarding the family and human sexuality heard a brilliantly concise and hard-hitting summary by a Romanian doctor who laid out the solution to the problem in bold, blunt language.
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