The Vatican has informed Italy that a draft law to fight homophobia and discrimination and violence based on sexual orientation and gender identity could violate the freedom of Catholics to teach and practice their faith.
The Vatican press office confirmed June 22 that
While the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 17 decision handed Catholic Social Services of Philadelphia (CSS) a 9-0 victory, the Court sidestepped an important question about the strength of the First Amendment’s religious freedom guarantee. As Helen Alvare writes in a recent essay
Responding to the recent Supreme Court decision to allow a Catholic adoption and foster care agency in Philadelphia to only place children in households with a mother and father, Monsignor Owen F. Campion writes that this is a good day for organized
In a major religious liberty ruling that gives religious groups timely new protection against state coercion, the Supreme Court held unanimously that the government cannot penalize a Catholic foster care agency for refusing to place foster children with same-sex couples. The dispute
For the Catholic Church, June is a month devoted to the Sacred Heart of Jesus — the merciful and loving heart of the one who lived, suffered and died so that we might one day join him in heaven. However, it is
In the latest editorial, the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board raises concerns about the Church in Germany. They write: “Of increasing concern to the unity of the universal Church has been the Church in Germany, which has, over the past two years,
Dr. Greg Popcak looks at the recent decision by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith to deny blessing same-sex unions. The response has been widely characterized in the press as a coldhearted, discriminatory attack on the dignity of LGBTQ persons,
While the Catholic Church cannot bless unions that are not sacramental marriages, the church will always welcome and accompany everyone, no matter their situation in life, said the prefect of the Dicastery for Laity, the Family and Life.
"Nobody must ever be excluded
In his most recent column, Monsignor Owen Campion, OSV’s chaplain, addresses the recent statement by the Vatican’s Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. The statement, he writes, was issued in answer to the question of whether or not priests may bless
While homosexual men and women must be respected, any form of blessing a same-sex union is "illicit," said the Vatican Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.
The negative judgment is on the blessing of unions, not the people who may still receive