
Monday on MSNBC’s “MTP Daily,” veteran chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News Andrea Mitchell said Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “retelling of history, that there would have been a constitutional amendment to ban same-sex marriage,” is not standing up
by Pam Key26 Oct 2015, 5:09 PM PST0

The left-wing of Catholicism just concluded a two-year campaign to convince the universal Church to change its teachings on marriage, divorce, communion, and homosexuality.
by Austin Ruse25 Oct 2015, 6:10 PM PST0

Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) rebutted his rival Hillary Clinton’s attempt to revise history on the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that her husband then-President Bill Clinton signed into law. Host
by Pam Key25 Oct 2015, 2:00 PM PST0

Recently the New York Times featured an article on what makes a modern man. Predictably, there was a lot to make fun of in the article. National Review took one of the first cracks at addressing each point.
by Lisa De Pasquale24 Oct 2015, 11:24 AM PST0

Since laws against consanguinity relate to childbearing, independent Irish Senator and gay activist David Norris has proposed that first cousins of the same sex should be allowed to marry, now that Ireland recognizes gay marriage.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.22 Oct 2015, 9:51 AM PST0

Catholics have reason to be a bit embarrassed by the Synod of Bishops that is coughing and wheezing to a merciful finish this weekend. The meeting, meant to advise the Pope on family matters, has revealed deep divisions in the Church, divisions that are rarely held up for the whole world to see.
by Austin Ruse21 Oct 2015, 7:20 AM PST0

In a blistering letter, signed by Liberty Counsel president Mathew Staver and delivered on Monday to Brian Barrett, AP’s Assistant General Counsel, the group charges an October 4 story is “defamatory and presents Liberty Counsel and me in a false light. The words and the way the article is written as a whole present a clear and unmistakable message to a reasonable person — Mat Staver and Liberty Counsel are liars and haters, and the organization is a ‘hate group.’ These assertions are very damaging and place lives in danger.” The Liberty Counsel provided the legal team for Kim Davis.
by Austin Ruse20 Oct 2015, 1:13 PM PST0

A recent article in the Atlantic features “a totally ordinary Catholic family,” one composed of two Lesbian ex-nuns and their adopted daughter. They’re campaigning to be accepted in the Roman Catholic Church.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.19 Oct 2015, 9:54 AM PST0

Three men have been arrested in rural China after being caught attempting to raid the tomb of a woman who died single in order to sell her corpse to the family of a deceased, single young man, to be used in a practice known as a “ghost wedding.”
by Frances Martel16 Oct 2015, 10:25 PM PST0

A law professor at Jesuit-run Fordham University in New York is appealing for an end to the institution of marriage in America, which he describes as “religious, gendered, and bourgeois.” Ethan J. Leib published his essay in the Fordham Law Review.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.16 Oct 2015, 5:17 AM PST0

Tuesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani said in the general election the Republican Party needed to focus on the economy and national security and avoid the social issues, which he argued would cost the
by Pam Key13 Oct 2015, 8:23 AM PST0

In the immediate wake of the Vatican sacking of a gay priest who attempted to upstage the Vatican Synod on the Family by “coming out” with his boyfriend the day before it began, Socialist French President François Hollande has withdrawn his proposal of Laurent Stefanini, an openly gay official, for the post of ambassador to the Holy See.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.13 Oct 2015, 5:58 AM PST0

On Friday, an unprecedented letter written to Pope Francis by thirteen cardinals taking part in the Vatican synod on marriage and the family was published online, revealing contention regarding the revamped synodal process as well as the suitability of the draft document being used to guide the bishops’ discussions.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.12 Oct 2015, 6:45 AM PST0

More than sixty prominent legal scholars are out with a statement saying the Supreme Court’s Obergefell decision “cannot be taken to have settled the law of the land.” Therefore the scholars are calling upon federal and state office holders, along with regular citizens, to act as if the decision is invalid.
by Austin Ruse8 Oct 2015, 10:24 AM PST0

Access by “transitioning” men to women’s bathrooms and locker rooms is a fundamental human right, transgender advocates argued this week at a State House hearing on expanded transgender legislation – the “bathroom bill,” as it is called.
by Howie Carr8 Oct 2015, 9:36 AM PST0

In a word intended to reassure conservatives, Pope Francis told the bishops gathered in the Vatican Synod on the family Tuesday that Church teaching on marriage is “still valid,” while also urging them to broaden their horizons, instead of focusing on internal questions such as Communion for the divorced and remarried.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.7 Oct 2015, 6:35 AM PST0

More than 130 notable converts to Catholicism have published an open letter begging Pope Francis and the bishops gathered at the Vatican Synod on Marriage and the Family to stand firm in teaching traditional Christian beliefs regarding the permanence of marriage, human sexuality, and the meaning of the family.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.6 Oct 2015, 8:23 AM PST0

Papal Nuncio to the United States, Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, is credited with setting up the now controversial meeting between the Pope and Kentucky Council clerk Kim Davis that was immediately denounced by advocates for gay marriage. One of the groups calling for his head includes the George Soros-funded “Faithful America” that is running an online petition for his firing.
by Austin Ruse5 Oct 2015, 12:15 PM PST0

In his opening address to bishops gathered in Rome for the Vatican synod on marriage and the family, Pope Francis reminded them that the Synod is not a “Parliament” where participants argue their case or negotiate, but a gathering of believers attentive to the Holy Spirit.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Oct 2015, 7:11 AM PST0

As the Obama administration works to lift the long-standing ban of transgenders serving in the United States military, Vice President Joe Biden said Saturday in an address to the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner that there is no longer “any question” transgender people can openly
by Trent Baker4 Oct 2015, 9:03 PM PST0

Saturday in Washington DC at the Human Rights Campaign, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton went after Republican presidential candidate former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) and Kentucky clerk Kim Davis for denying Americans their constitutional rights. Clinton said, “I wish that
by Pam Key4 Oct 2015, 9:46 AM PST0

Saturday in an address to the Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, Vice President Joe Biden took a jab at the Republican Party’s presidential field for the stance on LGBT issues, describing them as “homophobes.” “We become more of what America was meant to
by Jeff Poor4 Oct 2015, 8:26 AM PST0

The Pope said that Christian marriage is a cure for much of the solitude experienced by men and women in our own day. Our world, he said is characterized by loneliness and paradoxes. Today we enjoy “many sophisticated means of entertainment, but a deep and growing interior emptiness; many pleasures, but few loves; many liberties, but little freedom.” People need the family, even if they don’t realize it, Francis said.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.4 Oct 2015, 6:17 AM PST0

On the eve of the Vatican synod on marriage and the family, progressive German Cardinal Walter Kasper has come out publicly against doctrinal “fundamentalism” in the Church, while expressing his hope that the synod will open a “dialogue” on contraception for Catholics and reconsider the situation of homosexuals.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.2 Oct 2015, 11:37 AM PST0

Even as Vatican is denying Pope Francis met privately with Kentucky County Clerk Kim Davis, details are emerging that, while in Washington D.C., the Pope met privately with a gay man and his lover.
by Austin Ruse2 Oct 2015, 11:19 AM PST0