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May 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Professors at four Jesuit-run Catholic universities have recently stepped into the media to voice their disagreement with Catholic bishops on church teachings, including on contraception and the nature of marriage, and condemning the prelates for promoting an “idiosyncratic minority view” as Catholic dogma. The professors’ statements come at the same time that Pope Benedict  has emphasized  to U.S. bishops that reform of Catholic universities in the United States is the “most urgent challenge” facing the Church in the country. The pope told U.S. bishops who were visiting Rome recently that a lack of progress towards reform has created confusion by “instances of apparent dissidence” between academics and the bishops. “Such discord harms the Church’s witness and, as experience has shown, can easily be exploited to compromise her authority and her freedom,” he said. The issue of religious freedom is at the top of the American bishops’ agenda a

WASHINGTON , May 11, 2012  - House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi has again placed her Catholic religion in the midst of her politics, this time saying that her faith is the reason for her support for redefining marriage. She has also demonstrated she has no understanding of the Christian faith and will use anything to support her argument.  A reporter  asked  the former Speaker on Thursday to explain her support for gay “marriage” while still professing the Catholic faith. Nancy Pelosi “My religion has, compels me - and I love it for it - to be against discrimination of any kind in our country, and I consider this a form of discrimination. I think it’s unconstitutional on top of that,” she answered. Pelosi went on to praise President Obama for declaring support for the new marriage definition on Wednesday. “So I think that yesterday was a great day for America because the president in a very personal, as well as presidential way, made history, and hopefully this will br

WASHINGTON , May 10, 2012  – The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York , said that President Obama’s newly-announced support for redefining marriage is a blow to the institution of marriage, but unsurprising given the Obama administration ’s record. Cardinal Timothy Dolan “President Obama’s comments today in support of the redefinition of marriage are deeply saddening,” wrote Dolan in  a letter  posted on the USCCB website.  “The Catholic Bishops stand ready to affirm every positive measure taken by the President and the Administration to strengthen marriage and the family. However, we cannot be silent in the face of words or actions that would undermine the institution of marriage, the very cornerstone of our society.  The people of this country, especially our children, deserve better.” The Obama campaign recently   released a list   of the president’s many actions in favor of the gay rights agenda, including refusin

WASHINGTON, January 20, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - After being deluged with complaints from outraged religious groups, Obama’s health department has dug in its heels, saying its decision to force employers to provide abortifacient birth control drugs will continue as planned - although faith-based groups will be given a year reprieve. In response, U.S. Catholic bishops have not minced words, vowing to fight the order as “literally unconscionable.” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius   announced  Friday that faith-based entities like hospitals and universities will have until August 1, 2013 to provide employees with free birth control as part of their insurance packages. The mandate will also force such groups to pay for sterilizations and, because the FDA has approved abortifacient drugs such as Ella as “contraception.” The mandate is being implemented as part of the new health care legislation that was passed in March 2010 despite vigorous opposition from U.S. Cat

Image via Wikipedia Image via Wikipedia WASHINGTON, January 13, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Leaders of some of the largest religious communities in the United States have joined together in an  open letter  to all Americans to voice their shared concern for marriage and religious freedom. The letter, titled “Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together,” was released January 12. It can be found at . Signatories include leaders from Anglican, Baptist , Catholic, Evangelical, Jewish, Lutheran , Mormon, and Pentecostal communities in the United States. Cardinal-designate Timothy Dolan , archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops , was one of the four signing Catholic bishops. “Marriage and religious liberty are at a crisis point in the United States,” he said. “This letter is a sign of hope. Not only are tens of millions of believing citizens represented in the letter’s signatories, but the letter itself te

WASHINGTON, D.C. , - A spokesman for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned only days after publishing a column in The Boston Pilot in which he had suggested that the devil plays a role in same-sex attraction . The original column by the USCCB’s Dan Avila, “Some fundamental questions on same-sex attraction,” ran in the Catholic newspaper. It sought to address a common objection to traditional marriage supporters: isn’t opposing same-sex “marriage” cruel if, in fact, homosexuals are “born that way”? Daniel Avila Some people argue that “if God causes same-sex attraction, and yet commands that it not be satisfied, then this is divine cruelty,” wrote Avila, who was a full-time advisor to the USCCB’s Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage . “Or, if God causes same-sex attraction, then it must be the divine will that those with the attraction should act on it and it is the Church that is being cruel in its teaching or at the very least tragically mistaken about

The head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has expressed his “strong disappointment” in an open letter to the U.S. president over his policies that threaten true marriage and the traditional family. “Recent actions taken by your Administration … both escalate the threat to marriage and imperil the religious freedom of those who promote and defend marriage,” wrote New York’s Archbishop Dolan to President Obama on September 20th, 2011. “Mr. President, I respectfully urge you to push the reset button on your Administration‟s approach to DOMA,” wrote Archbishop Dolan to the president in a recent letter. This letter comes at a time when the Obama Administration has shifted  from not defending the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) to actively attacking the Act’s constitutionality. Just two months ago the Department of Justice (DoJ) filed a brief in Golinski v. U.S. Office of Personnel Management , arguing that DOMA should be struck down as a form of sexual orientat

Cover of Made for Life Responding to the push for legalized same-sex “marriage” in the United States and throughout the world, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has launched a new initiative to protect and support true marriage, entitled “ Marriage: Unique for a Reason .” The initiative aims to catechize and educate Catholics on the meaning of marriage as the union of one man and one woman and seeks to “fully answer the false claim of discrimination” with regards to the Church’s stance against same-sex “marriage.” Last June, the USCCB released the first of five videos, called “ Made for Each Other ”, which explores sexual difference and the complementarily between man and woman in marriage.   A newly released second video, Entitled “ Made for Life ,” features married couples reflecting on topics related to the gift of children and the indispensable place of fathers and mothers.  Later videos will cover topics of marriage related to the common good and freedom. “

Image via Wikipedia The U.S. bishops are stepping up their efforts in defense of marriage by making what was an ad hoc committee ‘’for the Defense of Marriage” into a new permanent subcommittee within the Committee on Laity , Marriage, Family Life and Youth.  That United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) subcommittee has released the second of five  videos  for the promotion and protection of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.  Entitled “Made for Life,’ the newly released video features real married couples reflecting on topics related to the gift of children, the indispensible place of fathers and mothers, and sexual difference. “Our culture is one that often forgets the sacred gift of the child, and in so doing it also fails to recognize the vital importance of a mother and a father together for the life and upbringing of that child,” said Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland, California , chairman of the committee. “The video also addresses a real