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Alum Fighting Discrimination Exemplifies the Best of Catholic Education

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A Catholic high school in Seattle refused to publish an alumna’s same-gender wedding announcement in its... Read More

Are Civil Unions Coming to Italy? Pope Francis & Bishops Hope Not

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Italy’s Parliament began debating civil unions for same-gender couples this week. Whatever the outcome of a... Read More

Married Gay Catholics Chosen as "Persons of the Year"

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Married gay Catholics Greg Bourke and Michael DeLe­on were chosen as Persons of the Year by... Read More

Slovenia Rejects Marriage Equality with Pope Francis' Blessing

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Slovenians rejected equal marriage and adoption rights for same-gender couples in Sunday’s national referendum, an outcome... Read More

Archbishop Cupich: Respect Lesbian and Gay People's Consciences

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Archbishop Blase Cupich of Chicago again defended the primacy of conscience regarding LGB people in an interview, striking too against those who seek to deny Communion to certain Catholics. Read More

Ireland Ends "Year of Equality" with LGBT Church Worker Protections

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Ireland’s lawmakers ended the country’s “Year of Equality” by passing a bill that will ban discrimination... Read More

Australian Bishops Face Discrimination Complaint Over Anti-Marriage Book

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Australia’s bishops are facing a discrimination complaint about an anti-marriage equality publication they published earlier this year,... Read More

Priest Says Same-Sex Marriage Improves Society, As Catholic Nations Commence Weddings

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A Maryland Catholic priest said the Supreme Court's Obergefell ruling which legalized marriage equality nationwide in June "may, in fact, make things better, not only for LGBT couples, but also for our society." Read More

Trying to Interpret the Language of the Synod

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Below is the next installment of Bondings 2.0’s reports from the Synod on Marriage and... Read More

Bishops Down Under Offer Over-the-Top Rhetoric as Marriage Equality Approaches

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Australia's political leaders are slowly moving towards marriage equality, prompted by successful developments in Ireland and then the United States, movement prompting aggressive action from the nation's Catholic bishops. Read More