
Another advocate for gay marriage has come out of the legal closet, declaring in public that most gays actually want to utterly change the ideal of marriage so that 70s-style “open” relationships become the new normal, whether or not their preferences undermine the social expectations that help bind millions of married parents to their young children.
by Austin Ruse5 Jan 2016, 7:36 PM PST0

What Americans have long viewed to be the traditional nuclear family arrangement — children living with a working father and stay-at-home mother in their first marriage — is now one of the rarer family structures in the U.S., says a new report from the Pew Research Center.
by Caroline May30 Dec 2015, 11:47 AM PST0

Socially conservative GOP presidential candidates, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, are responding to a recent report about fellow GOP presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz’s (R-TX) alleged “double-speak” on protecting traditional marriage.
by Alex Swoyer23 Dec 2015, 11:19 AM PST0

Half of America’s children have a parent with a criminal record, creating many “barriers to opportunity” for parents and children, says the liberal Center for American Progress.
by Dr. Susan Berry17 Dec 2015, 9:01 PM PST0

Retired Air Force Senior Master Sergeant Phillip Monk almost didn’t make it to retirement, when his lesbian commanding officer relieved him of duty because he refused her order to declare that Americans who believe in traditional marriage unfairly discriminate against homosexuals,
by Ken Klukowski11 Nov 2015, 10:43 AM PST0

In spite of sensational media claims that Pope Francis suffered a major “defeat” at the hands of conservative bishops during the recently concluded synod on the family, all evidence suggests that the Pope got exactly what he wanted: a frank debate on the situation of Christian families in the world today and how the Church can more effectively serve them.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.25 Oct 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

As the Vatican synod on marriage and the family draws to a close with no significant change in Catholic doctrine or practice, liberals are left nursing their wounds over yet another revolution that didn’t happen.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.24 Oct 2015, 6:32 AM 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

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

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

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

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

WASHINGTON—Seventy national conservative leaders have issued a “Memo to the Movement” on the Supreme Court, calling on conservatives to focus Republican presidential candidates on what sort of justices they would appoint. These leaders have one simple demand: “No more surprises.”
by Ken Klukowski3 Oct 2015, 2:28 PM 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

In the lead-up to October’s Vatican Synod on Marriage and the Family, the drafters express their deep concern over what they see as “widespread confusion” over the possibility of divorced and remarried Catholics receiving Holy Communion as well as the acceptance of homosexual unions, which they describe as “contrary to Divine and natural law.” On Tuesday morning, the petition was delivered to the Vatican, requesting that Francis offer “a clarifying word” to dispel the confusion that reigns among many of the faithful around the globe.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.29 Sep 2015, 10:15 AM PST0

At his final celebration in the United States before departing for Rome, Pope Francis told approximately one million people who attended Mass outdoors in Philadelphia Sunday that the simple daily acts of love expressed by family members to each other are what nurture both life and faith.
by Dr. Susan Berry27 Sep 2015, 6:12 PM PST0

Pope Francis warns marriage has been stretched and distorted in the United States, to the point where it is no longer even similar to the Christian sacrament of matrimony. The pontiff noted the “unprecedented changes” taking place in contemporary society, “with their social, cultural – and sadly now juridical – effects on family bonds,” referring to the Supreme Course decision in June to legalize same-sex marriage for the entire nation in Obergefell v. Hodges.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.27 Sep 2015, 7:12 AM PST0

After a year’s work by a special legal commission, Pope Francis has approved a reform of the Code of Canon Law to simplify and streamline the marriage annulment process. The new rules were presented at the Vatican Tuesday at noon and were laid out in two brief papal letters.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.8 Sep 2015, 7:00 AM PST0

The decision by a federal judge to jail county clerk Kim Davis suggests that Christianity is being criminalized in America, says GOP presidential candidate and Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.
by Alex Swoyer3 Sep 2015, 12:07 PM PST0

“For us it is important that we not simply be married by the mayor. We love each other, and it’s beautiful to have the acceptance of the church,” said Isabell Storm and Cecilie Mundt, who were both born male. In June 2012 the Danish parliament approved a new law to allow gay marriages in the Lutheran National Church, but so far had not officiated unions between transsexuals.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.28 Aug 2015, 11:21 AM PST0

A buried item in the Office for National Statistics data dump today reveals that UK-born women are the least likely to give birth while married. In 2014, the ONS reveals, “a much higher proportion of births to non UK-born women
by Raheem Kassam27 Aug 2015, 2:10 AM PST0

In a strongly worded statement to American Catholics, Pope Francis declared that marriage between one man and one woman is “under attack from powerful cultural forces,”
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Aug 2015, 7:19 PM PST0

In his weekly audience Wednesday, Pope Francis continued his series of reflections on the family, focusing on the situation of the divorced and remarried and their participation in the life of the Church.
by Thomas D. Williams, Ph.D.5 Aug 2015, 6:19 PM PST0

There’s a website looking to pick up what might be called the aftermarket business from cheater websites: FidelityDating.com, which is pitching itself to what the New York Post describes as “‘infidelity survivors’ seeking other singles who’ve also been through cheating scandals.”
by John Hayward21 Jul 2015, 1:26 PM PST0