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December 2019

December 01, 2019

VIDEO: Priest at center of communion controversy explains his decision

This is worth your time: an interview with Father Scott Nolan, the priest who told...

November 2019

November 27, 2019

Priest denies communion to judge in same-sex marriage — UPDATED

The video below from WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids tells the story: Details: Judge Sara...

June 2019

June 25, 2019

CNN: Those Two Gay Teachers in Indianapolis Are Married to Each Other

Small world: Two Catholic high schools in Indianapolis were facing the same instruction from an...

March 2019

March 20, 2019

Archbishop Responds to Uproar Over Child with Gay Parents

You probably caught this story last week. Now, Archishop Joseph Naumann of Kansas City, Kansas,...

June 2018

June 04, 2018

The story everyone will be talking about: SCOTUS rules for baker who refused to make cake for same-sex wedding

From CNN: The Supreme Court ruled narrowly in favor of a Colorado baker who refused to bake...

July 2013

July 31, 2013

California Catholic school fires teacher after gay wedding

Details: A Rancho Cucamonga man who taught 17 years at a Catholic high school was...

January 2013

January 09, 2013

What can you do about Catholics who support same-sex marriage?

Well, despite what you may think, you can't just automatically excommunicate them. Canon lawyer Ed...

January 03, 2013

What’s wrong with gay marriage? Let me count the ways…

Actually, I'll let Brandon Vogt do it. He lays out 10 common arguments in favor...

December 2012

December 27, 2012

Maryland company closes wedding business rather than serve same-sex couples

Details, from the Baltimore Sun: An Annapolis company whose old-fashioned trolleys are iconic in the city's wedding...

October 2012

October 30, 2012

Is this what schism looks like?

I have to wonder if same sex marriage will be the issue that finally and...

October 11, 2012

This is what happens when you oppose same-sex marriage in Maryland

From NBC News: The chief diversity officer at Gallaudet University was put on administrative leave...

September 2012

September 24, 2012

Duly noted in the wedding announcements…

A former boss from CBS sent this my way, noting: "I found the description of...

August 2012

August 30, 2012

In Washington, Catholic churches cannot take up special collection to fight gay marriage

From the Associated Press: Washington's campaign finance watchdog says the state's Catholic churches can't collect...

August 19, 2012

On the wedding announcements page: priest assists at same sex wedding?

A wedding announcement in this Sunday's New York Times: Roger Thomas Danforth and Richard James...

June 2012

June 07, 2012

First same-sex religious “commitment” ceremony performed by Army chaplain

Details from CNN: A same-sex ceremony between an enlisted woman and a civilian woman on...

May 2012

May 27, 2012

Churches pass the collection plate to fight gay marriage

From the Associated Press: Scores of Maine churches will pass the collection plate a second...

May 10, 2012

Pelosi: my faith “compels me” to support same-sex marriage

Details: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Thursday that her Catholic faith "compels" her to...

April 2012

April 24, 2012

Kansas law would require churches to host gay weddings — UPDATED

Details -- and a grateful H/T to Marcel at Aggie Catholics: Religious liberty groups are...

April 17, 2012

Pastor who declined gay marriage petition gets standing ovation

Earlier, I posted about parishes in Seattle that were declining to take part in the...

August 2011

August 11, 2011

Facebook petition pushes for Bert and Ernie to get married — UPDATED

That sound you hear is my palm slapping my forehead. Details: In this horrific age...

August 09, 2011

"I have a public obligation to try to change that injustice"

That is how Maryland's Catholic Governor Martin O'Malley responded to a letter from Baltimore's archbishop,...

July 2011

July 24, 2011

New "ministers" performing same sex weddings

So says the New York Daily News, which reported on this unfortunate phenomenon yesterday. Details:...

July 20, 2011

Catholic innkeepers sued for refusing to host gay wedding

It happened in Vermont, over a reception that was slated to be held at the...

July 13, 2011

New York clerk quits over gay marriage: "I have to choose between my job and my God"

A woman in upstate New York has taken a bold stand on the issue. Details:...

July 12, 2011

Who wants to wait to get married?

In New York, it seems, no one. With the law changing on same sex marriage,...

July 06, 2011

Banned in Brooklyn: parish returns check from pol who backs gay marriage

From the In My Backyard Desk ... Following Brooklyn Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio's hard line on...

July 04, 2011

Quote of the day

"Institutions tend to be strongest when they make significant moral demands, and weaker when they...

July 02, 2011

Should we be like Monaco?

Below, a brief report on the Catholic wedding of Prince Albert (not, it seems, in...

July 01, 2011

"Man and woman naturally complement each other…"

A good dissection of marriage can be found right here by Dick Houck, of the...

June 2011

June 30, 2011

"If anything is marriage, nothing is marriage…"

"We ought to care that traditional marriage is in crisis. It is clear that children...