Marriage & Family

Legislating Same-Sex Marriage: What’s At Stake?

by Francis Cardinal George, OMI January 7, 2013

Editor’s Note: the following first appeared in Chicago’s archdiocesan newspaper, Catholic New World, and is reprinted with kind permission. 
At the beginning of the New Year, 2013, a law is being proposed in the General Assembly [of the state of…

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Refined by Fire

by Hallie Lord January 4, 2013

If ever there was a romance that started off with a bang it was ours. It was love at first sight—the kind of love affair that many have trouble believing exists until they find themselves swept up in one of…

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Marriage: Doomed in the U.S.A.?

by Fr. Michael P. Orsi December 21, 2012

Two cases regarding same-sex marriage will be adjudicated by the United States Supreme Court early next year.
The Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) (1996), is a federal law which only recognizes marriage as being between a man and a woman.…

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The Case for Man & Woman Marriage

by Carolyn Moynihan December 18, 2012

“Not all married couples have children. But every child ever born has a mum and dad…” Another helpful video — this time from Ireland’s Ioana Institute.…

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Two Became Three

by Hallie Lord December 5, 2012

Backing our car into the parking space of an empty parking lot was the last straw.
I’d bitten my tongue during our first months together, parking peccadilloes being easily overshadowed by the first blooms of young love. By the time…

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Reason and Compassion in the Marriage Debate

by R.J. Snell December 5, 2012

Discourse about marriage is often short on reason and compassion. Arguments and objections can be mercilessly logical, forgetful of persons behind the positions; at other times reason seems to have taken a holiday, replaced with a kind of shrill indignation.…

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The Future of Marriage: Why “The Inevitable” Isn’t

by Luis Tellez December 4, 2012

Election Day was a drubbing for marriage. The ballot initiatives to protect marriage lost by over 4% in Maine, Minnesota, Washington State, and Maryland. Those who support same-sex “marriage” reportedly spent over $33 million, while those who defend marriage spent…

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How to Value a Child

by Mary Cooney December 4, 2012

My husband and I are millionaires. Or at least we ought to be. According to a recent New York Times article The Cost, in Dollars, of Raising a Child ”would run close to $2 million by the time it was…

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Petraeus Scandal: Soap Opera or Serious Business?

by Anita L. Staver November 16, 2012

Tune in for the latest episode of As the Military World Turns…
In a scandalous story with more twists and turns than the road to Hana, we see a married CIA director who resigned after an affair with his Harvard-educated…

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Naturally: A Victim of Same Sex “Marriage”

by Jennifer Morse November 13, 2012

The policy proposal known as “same-sex marriage” is actually a proposal to redefine marriage. Instead of being a gender-based institution oriented toward the procreation of children and the good of the spouses, what is called “same-sex marriage” makes marriage into…

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