Election results all across the country couldn’t have been worse for our boys in the fuschia beanies. All their bigotry, all their hate, all their efforts to manipulate the election in favor of the Republicans have come to nought. All
Spain’s Top Court Rules: Gay Marriage is Constitutional
Spain’s highest court has upheld the constitutionality of the seven-year old marriage equality law.
Spain’s top court today ruled that the law passed in 2005 by the Socialist government of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero allowing gay couples to marry is
Maryland Catholic Priest Breaks With Church To Urge Marriage Equality
At Baltimore’s St. Vincent de Paul Church, Rev. Richard T. Lawrence read the archbishop’s statement urging a vote against the marriage bill referendum. He then told his parishioners why the archbishop was wrong.
A Maryland priest bucked the Vatican —
Catholics United urges gay marriage surrender
The group Catholics United, which until now has avoided directly contradicting Catholic teaching in its defense of Democratic political causes, has now denounced Catholic efforts to defend traditional marriage as a “far right-wing” social issue.
The shift comes in an
Minnesota nonprofit for farmers loses grant for ties to groups opposing marriage bill
By Zoe Ryan
A Minnesota nonprofit that assists beginner and rural farmers lost its grant funding from the U.S. Catholic bishops’ conference when the conference learned it was a member of two Minnesota groups that oppose Minnesota’s marriage amendment, an
Catholics defy bishops to pray for gay marriage
The folk mass hymns and gospels were familiar, the response “And with your spirit” recited Sundays in church by millions of Catholics, but the 120 faithful gathered outside Seattle’s St. James Cathedral on Sunday afternoon were praying for a cause
Grand Forks woman to demonstrate against bishop’s election message
Kate Kenna, a lifelong Catholic, career social worker and political progressive in Grand Forks, has mounted a reaction to news of a North Dakota bishop’s call to the faithful concerning voting.
A letter from Bishop David Kagan of Bismarck is
Redefining Marriage
The Church hates the gays more than it loves its own.
File under the category: The Church hates the gays more than it loves its own. Churches are closing, schools are closing, food banks are underfunded, and shelters for homeless people are shuttered. More and more people are living on the
Catholic Church errs in fighting same-sex marriage
There’s a delicious rebellion brewing in Washington state — the “other Washington,” as those of us based in D.C. like to say.
A group of 63 former Roman Catholic priests, with a total of 800 years service, supports Referendum 74,