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This Catholic Life

Catholics told they must be ‘fearless leaders’

In dealing with several serious issues confronting the church and society today, “the only question is how you respond, not whether you should,” said Helen Alvare at the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast, held May 9 in Washington.
Local News

Effects of redefining marriage will be felt for years, Minnesota Catholic Conference says

The Senate will vote on the legislation next week. The governor has said he would sign the measure if it reaches his desk.
Commentary

Same-sex marriage and the breakdown of moral argument

In his classic text “After Virtue,” the philosopher Alisdair MacIntyre lamented, not so much the immorality that runs rampant in our contemporary society, but something more fundamental and in the long run more dangerous — namely, that we are no longer even capable of having a real argument about moral matters.
Commentary

Conscience and the ‘both-and’ of the marriage amendment

Good will and social acceptance of all persons does not logically require that the legal definition of marriage be changed for everyone.
Local News

Marriage amendment awareness campaign launched just outside Minnesota’s State Fair grounds

Outside the main gate of the State Fair a get-out-the-vote effort has been launched in support of an amendment to the Minnesota State Constitution to continue to define marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
Only Jesus

Marriage amendment deserves our support

Regrettably, the media and some secular commentators have chosen to mischaracterize this measure as anti-gay, mean-spirited and prejudicial. This is not the case or the intent behind the initiative.
Editorials

Marriage amendment not about ‘fringe’ politics, hate

The Minnesota Independent noted in a recent article that newspapers throughout the state are coming out against a bill seeking to place a constitutional amendment on the ballot that would define marriage as a union between one man and one woman. No editorial boards, it said, are supportive of the amendment.
Local News

Redefining marriage will redefine parenthood, marriage expert says

Love is a wonderful thing, says Jennifer Roback Morse. But there’s no compelling reason for the government to register the simple fact that people love each other. It serves no essential public purpose.
Local News

Marriage amendment moves forward in Senate; Catholic bishops testify in favor

The Senate approved a bill, in a 38-27 vote, May 11 that takes one more step toward a constitutional amendment defining marriage as a union between one man and one woman in Minnesota.
Local News

Marriage amendment proposal introduced

A proposal was to be introduced in the Minnesota Senate April 26 that, if passed by both state houses, would place a constitutional amendment regarding marriage on the ballot in November 2012.
Local News

Marriage catechesis remains archdiocesan priority in wake of DVD controversy

It’s been six weeks since the Minnesota bishops mailed 400,000 DVDs to Minnesota Catholics opposing same-sex marriage. The mailing, which explained the church’s teaching on marriage and urged Catholics to support an amendment to the state constitution defining marriage as between one man and one woman, received praise as well as criticism.
Local News

Town hall-style meeting Oct. 27 to address church’s teaching on marriage

Two archdiocesan priests will address Catholics’ questions about the church’s teaching on marriage and family Wednesday, Oct. 27, from 7 to 9 p.m. at St. John the Baptist in New Brighton.
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