Marriage - Digging Deeper
Bishop Cordileone to Senate Judiciary Committee
Don't Redefine Marriage
Defend Human Rights of Children
WASHINGTON, D.C. November 2, 2011—The Senate Judiciary Committee should uphold the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), which defines marriage at the federal level as the union of one man and one woman, because of its importance to human rights and the common good, said the chairman of the U.S. bishops’ Promotion and Defense of Marriage efforts. In a November 2 letter, Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland and an episcopal adviser to Catholics for the Common Good, asked the Committee to oppose any bill that would repeal DOMA, particularly the Respect for Marriage Act (S. 598).
Bishop Cordileone Expresses Grave Disappointment
NY Marriage redefinition:
An “abandonment of the common good”
WASHINGTON, June 28, 2011—In response to last Friday’s enactment of a law redefining marriage in the State of New York, Bishop Salvatore J. Cordileone, chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage, expressed “grave disappointment with the legislature’s abandonment of the common good.”
Illinois Catholic Charities:
Penalized for Putting ‘Best Interest of the Child’ First
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28, 2011 The implementation of the new civil-union law in Illinois is leading to a showdown between Catholic Charities as a provider of adoption services for children and a state law that places the private interest of adults over the human rights of children. Catholic Charities will actually be put in jeopardy of lawsuits and losing public funds to serve the poor if they refuse to deprive children they serve of married mothers and fathers. How crazy is that?
USCCB condemns ‘Catholic’ group
Misleads on Marriage and Homosexuality
WASHINGTON, D.C., March 16, 2011 – The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) warned Catholics this week against the self-identified “Catholic” group New Ways Ministry’s position on [marriage and ] homosexuality.
Action for World Marriage Day
2nd Sunday in Februrary
What is Your Parish Planning?
What Can You Do?
In 1993, his Holiness, Pope John Paul II, imparted his Apostolic Blessings on World Marriage Day, which is celebrated on the 2nd Sunday of February. The USCCB has encouraged this celebration as a way of supporting their mission to promote the reality of marriage, their top priority for 2011. It comes just before Valentine's Day, a traditional time to celebrate love, friendship, and romance. In addition, Valentine's Day is becoming a day for politics and contention. The media will be full of reports of same-sex couples seeking marriage licenses across the country, advocating that marriage be redefined as merely a committed relationship for the benefit of adults. However, this is a reminder that events provide educational opportunities.
Celebrate the Reality of Marriage
The reality of marriage has become obscured today because of the influcences of relativism and the secular culture. It has been diminished for many as merely the public recognition of a loving committed relationship for the private interest of a man and a woman. The following essay helps focus on the reality of marriage as a foundational part of God's plan for creation, and the Catholic understanding of its sacramental nature.
Reference: Canon Law Pertaining to Marriage (Cann. 1055 - 1165)
The Marriage of Mary and Joseph
Feast of the Holy Family
Emphasizes the Value of Marriage
SAN FRANCISCO, December 27, 2010 -- In the Gospel for the Feast of the Holy Family, Joseph received instructions in a dream telling him how best to care for and protect his wife and newborn son. In our modern language, we call Joseph “Jesus’ foster father”. While it may be the best we can do, the connotation is that Joseph is temporary or interchangeable. Is that really true?
Pope’s Christmas warning: ‘the future of the world is at stake’
VATICAN, December 20, 2010 – In his traditional Christmas greeting to Vatican officials this morning, the Pope drew a link between the times of the fall of the Roman Empire and our own times, arguing that “the future of the world is at stake.”
Apostolic Exhortation Verbum Domini
Recognizes Current Attack on the Family Family
Pope Benedict: New Ideologies that “Trivialize the Human Body”
ROME, November 11, 2010 – The family is under sustained attack from new ideologies that “trivialize the human body,” and distort the purpose and meaning of marriage, Pope Benedict XVI said in a document released by the Vatican today.
The word of God, marriage and the family
From Pope Benedict's Post Synodal Apostolic Exhortation on sacred scripture, Verbum Domini, Word of the Lord, September 30, 2010.
US Bishops Rebuke Two Theologians
Book on Sexuality in Error
WASHINGTON, September 22, 2010 – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) on Wednesday issued a sharply worded rebuke of a book co-authored by two Creighton University theologians.
Holy Father: The Future of Marriage Depends on Personal Culture
VATICAN, September 13, 2010 -- Pope Benedict said that the "success of marriages depends upon us all and on the personal culture of each individual citizen," in a meeting today with Germany's new ambassador to the Holy See on Monday.He was referencing Pope John Paul II's notion of the "culture of the person" as critical to the future of marriage and the family.
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