Poll: Only 35% of US Catholics Say Opposition to Marriage Equality is Important
The National Catholic Reporter has put out their fifth survey cataloguing Catholic attitudes and practices in America. We should be throwing a party to celebrate these results. When asked what aspects...
View ArticleNo Surprise: Pope Condemns Marriage Equality
Pope Benedict XVI condemned gay marriage on Friday in a speech to bishops from the United States after the US state of Maryland last week became the eighth in the nation to legalise same-sex unions....
View ArticleVatican Tells UN That Gay Rights Are Special Rights
The Vatican has described gay rights as “special rights” in criticizing an historic United Nations report documenting discriminatory laws and acts of violence against gay, lesbian, bisexual and...
View ArticleItaly: Marriage Equality Protesters Barred From St. Peter’s Square
Gay rights campaigners held a protest in Vatican City after Pope Benedict XVI said gay marriages were ‘against human nature’. On Sunday (16 December), protestors were barred from holding a peaceful...
View ArticleItaly: Vatican Says Gays Wanting Marriage Equality in a “Different Reality”
All right, the Vatican needs to take a timeout. After the Pope’s incendiary comments about gay marriage, the Holy See’s “semi-official” newspaper has blasted gay couples as being in a “different...
View ArticleItaly: Vatican Paper Compares Marriage Equality to Communism
Faced with recent setbacks in the United States and in Europe, the Catholic Church has intensified its increasingly uphill battle against gay marriage. The latest salvo came on Monday (Dec. 17), with a...
View ArticleItaly: Four Women Strip in St. Peter’s Square to Protest Vatican Position on...
Four women have gone topless in St. Peter’s Square to protest the Vatican’s opposition to gay marriage. Police quickly took the women away Sunday, and the pope appeared not to have been disturbed as he...
View ArticleItaly: Vatican Critical of High Court Ruling on Gays Raising Children
The Vatican is pressing its opposition to gay marriage, insisting Saturday that children should grow up with a father and a mother after Italy’s high court upheld a lower court ruling and granted...
View ArticleItaly: Vatican Says Don’t Hate The Gays, But Their Marriages Are Sick
Lovely. Once again the Vatican manages to put their foot in it while talking about gays and marriage equality. Archbishop Vincenzo Paglia has some words for the LGBT community, from Gay Star News:...
View ArticleItaly: Archbishop in Vatican Open to Civil Unions For Gay and Lesbian Couples
Pope John Paul II’s liturgical master of ceremonies, Archbishop Piero Marini, has signaled that the Vatican should be open to civil unions for same-sex couples. The National Catholic Reporter has the...
View ArticleItaly: Threatening Letter From Vatican Shuts Down Gay Kiss Exhibit
Photo by Gonzalo Orquin The Vatican’s lawyers sent a threatening letter to a gallery in Rome, forcing gallery to cancel a gay exhibit. Towleroad reports: The Vatican this week blocked an exhibition of...
View ArticleVatican Sends Out Survey on Birth Control, Abortion, and Marriage Equality
The Vatican is sending out a survey to all of its Bishops to get local parishes more involved in church decision-making on important issues. Edge Boston reports: The poll was sent in mid-October to...
View ArticleVatican: Pope Francis Suggests Church Could Accept Some Civil Unions
Pope Francis suggested the Church might be ok with some form of legal recognition for same sex couples. The Catholic News Service reports: “Matrimony is between a man and a woman,” the pope said, but...
View ArticleVatican’s Special Meeting On Gay Marriage – Good News or Bad News?
Pope Francis clearly wants to put his mark on the Catholic Church, but what exactly what is that mark? We may get a better sense this fall. The pontiff has just ordered an “extraordinary” session of...
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