It’s probably not surprising if you don’t know who Ted Haggard is. I would bet that most Catholics outside of Colorado don’t. Yet to most Evangelicals, Haggard is a major leader of their movement. He is the senior pastor of New... [Continue Reading]
CourageMan reports on a case in Canada in which a gay man and two lesbians want a judge to declare all three of them parents of a little boy. The man and one of the women are the biological parents of the child and their second woman is the... [Continue Reading]
The two women, whose legal names are Julie and Hilary Goodridge and whose lawsuit was the basis for the Massachusetts’ Supreme Court’s decision to order gay marriage be made legal, are now going to “separate” and probably end... [Continue Reading]
As I’ve been saying for some time, the fight over the ability for Boston Catholic Charities to perform adoptions is one of religious liberty. Likewise, gay activists see it as a matter of civil rights. Maggie Gallagher looks at both sides of... [Continue Reading]
You might be surprised at which groups are big fans of the US bishops’ child protection programs. Then again you probably won’t be.
I love it when Catholic politicians—usually liberal Democrats—tell the Church what is and is not moral and what the Church can and cannot do with regard to morality. Massachusetts House Speaker Sal DiMasi said the other day that he will... [Continue Reading]
Okay, I’ve got a few minutes for some brief blogging. The Springfield Republican says that only 20 percent of priests in the Diocese of Springfield, Massachusetts, signed the petition to pass a constitutional amendment to protect marriage... [Continue Reading]
A California priest accused of soliciting for homosexual sex during trips, including ones for Church business, was removed from his parish. Among other things, Father Michael Lastiri also hired a convicted felon to work at a previous parish. Court... [Continue Reading]
Two men have come forward with new, more detailed allegations against Bishop Thomas Dupre, alleging he violated them regularly back in the 1970s when they were teens. One of the men, who is now gay, says he came forward because he saw hypocricy in... [Continue Reading]
Well, they did it. It wasn’t as bad as it could have been, but it’s bad enough. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court told the state Legislature to pass a law setting up gay marriage. What we have is a situation analogous to what... [Continue Reading]