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A federal judge ruled in favor of the Archdiocese of Chicago and one of its parishes in a lawsuit filed by a former employee claiming discrimination for being fired after publicly announcing his same-sex “engagement” in 2014. Colin Collette  was fired from Holy Family parish in Inverness in July 2014 after he had worked there for 17 years as music director and director of worship.  He refused a request by his pastor to resign  after his “engagement” with his male partner was made known on social media. The late Cardinal Francis George was archbishop at the time. The archdiocese  said  when Collette was fired that those working in Church ministries, including worship ministers, are expected to conform their lives publicly with the teachings of the Church, and that “This is a matter of personal integrity on their part.” Citing the ministerial exception, U.S. District Judge Charles P. Kocoras granted the motion for summary judgment sought in the...

Those in same-sex "marriages" shouldn't present themselves to or be admitted to Holy Communion , nor may they receive a Catholic funeral if they died without showing signs of repentence, Illinois Bishop Thomas Paprocki says. Paprocki is the Catholic bishop of Springfield, Illinois and well-known to the pro-life and pro-family movements for his defense of Catholic orthodoxy and morality. On June 12, Paprocki signed a " Decree Regarding Same-Sex 'Marriage' and Related Pastoral Issues ." It was sent to priests and diocesan staff last week and subsequently leaked to media sympathetic with the homosexual cause.  "The Church has not only the authority, but the serious obligation, to affirm its authentic teaching on marriage and to preserve and foster the sacred value of the married state," Paprocki explained after reminding his flock of "the clear and consistent teaching of the Catholic Church since her founding by Our Lord Jesus C...

LGBT people are starved of the truth of the Gospel in today’s world. I should know. I was one of them.   I divorced my wife, left the Church and lived as a gay man for more than a decade. I even  publicly promoted same-sex marriage . Since then, attracted first by the irresistible pull of natural law and then the Gospel, I have returned to my wife, pulled our family back together, returned to full communion with the Catholic Church and am now a marriage, family, and children's rights activist. Increasing numbers in the church think it is a kindness to refrain from speaking truthfully to the same-sex attracted and gender-challenged. This is a dangerous untruth, jeopardizing millions of lives. Cardinal Sarah  recently made an impassioned plea to his brother priests and bishops to stop depriving the same-sex attracted from the ‘hard parts of the Gospel’ and to instead lavish us with its life-giving truth that we too might live in freedom as sons and daughter o...

voor box uitsnede monstrans (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) I’m a Catholic male and same-sex attractions are a part of my story. However, it has recently been written onto my heart that I might be called to marriage—with a woman. What? Let me explain… Not About Therapy This has nothing to do with therapy with the objective to change from “gay” to “straight.” I’ve never done that, and I have found peace in knowing that the Church is not trying to get me to pursue that. This has, however, come to be after many years of continuously striving to say “ Yes ” to God , and “Yes” to growing in virtue (in particular, the virtue of chastity, which I struggled with for most of my life). I came to desire a chaste heart because I desired holiness, and I desired holiness because I desired to unite my heart with the heart of Jesus Christ . This desire came about because I first experienced the love of Christ through  someone like   you ; someone who simply loved me where I was ...

Español: Intercambio de anillos entre los novios (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Two prominent Protestant pastors defended marriage at the Vatican, saying the Church must fight against the sexual revolution and stand for Biblical truth about marriage and sexuality. Speaking at Pope Francis’ Humanum  conference  November 17, Evangelical pastor and author Rick Warren talked about God’s plan for marriage, and along with Southern Baptist ethicist Russell Moore , decried the ruin of marriage resulting from today’s sexual mores. “To redefine marriage would destroy the picture that God intends for marriage to portray, and we cannot cave on this issue,” Warren said. “It's a picture of Christ and his Church." "What are we going to do about this?” he said, according to a  report  from Christian Today . “The Church cannot cower in silence. The stakes are too high." Never give up and never give in, was Warren’s message, saying the Church cannot be salt and light in a...

English: Headmistress and primary school students in Ghana (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) Following the conclusion of the Synod on the Family in Rome , the Catholic bishops of Ghana met at their plenary assembly this month to continue to consider the challenges faced by Ghanaian families, and to reaffirm the Church's teaching on marriage and family life. The theme of this year's plenary was “The Pastoral Challenges of the Family in the Context of Evangelization .” "The African cherishes the family as the fundamental base of humanity and of society," the bishops observed. "As a family, respect, sense of belonging and care for one another are our values." The plenary, they said, focused on concerns that today the family is undergoing "significant challenges that rock the very foundation on which God has set the human society ." The bishops affirmed that the Church’s perennial and unchanging teaching on the family "is based on the n...