Supreme Court to hear cases on same-sex marriage
By Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court will take up in the spring two cases over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage.In orders issued Dec. 7, the court agreed...
View ArticleUSCCB briefs in two cases urge court to uphold traditional marriage
By Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- In "amicus" or friend-of-the-court briefs in two Supreme Court cases that weigh the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, the U.S. Conference...
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Church teaching clear on Supreme Court cases on marriage
Joseph Kenny | jkenny@archstl.org Catholic Church teaching is solidly behind the brief filed by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in the Defense of Marriage Act and California's Proposition 8...
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Organizations weigh in on how Supreme Court should handle HHS mandate
Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON After ruling in 2012 that certain aspects of the Affordable Care Act stand up to constitutional scrutiny, the Supreme Court's next dip into legal...
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High court hears oral arguments in companies' challenge to HHS mandate
Carol Zimmermann | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- Oral arguments in two cases before the U.S. Supreme Court March 25 focused on whether for-profit corporations have religious grounds to object to...
View ArticleSupreme Court rules in favor of Hobby Lobby, Conestoga Woods
By Patricia Zapo | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court's June 30 ruling that certain businesses, based on their religious objections, can be exempted from a government requirement to...
View ArticleDiocese asks U.S. Supreme Court to hear case involving confessional seal
Catholic News Service BATON ROUGE, La. -- The Diocese of Baton Rouge has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a Louisiana Supreme Court decision that stated the court may attempt to compel a priest...
View ArticleSupreme Court agrees to take up same-sex marriage cases this term
Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court agreed Jan. 16 to hear four cases over the constitutionality of same-sex marriage, tackling the questions of whether the 14th Amendment requires...
View ArticleHigh court considers place of same-sex marriage in states that bar it
Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- The questions raised by Supreme Court justices as they considered April 28 whether they should rule that same-sex marriage should be made legal...
View ArticleEditorial | Waking up marriage, family life
The first video of the series "Journey to the Heart of Family" features a woman named Norma who talks about the impact of losing a baby six months into her pregnancy.Because of their faith, the...
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Praying for the protection of marriage and family
Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker Photos by Lisa Johnston | lisajohnston@archstl.org | twitter: @aeternusphoto Every Friday night, there's a party at Rick and Maria...
View ArticleSupreme Court cases on same-sex marriage
The court has bundled appeals of lower court rulings about the laws of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky and Tennessee under the title of the Ohio case, Obergefell v. Hodges. That case arose after the October...
View ArticleWhat does marriage mean? Some of the Catholic Church's key teachings on marriage
What does marriage mean to you?Consider these words: procreative, covenant, sacramental, definitive, joyful.Those are some of the ways in which the Catholic Church explains its teaching on marriage,...
View ArticleCourt rules same-sex marriage legal nationwide
Patricia Zapor | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- In a landmark ruling, a divided Supreme Court June 26 said same-sex marriage is constitutional nationwide."The nature of marriage is that, through...
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THE CATHOLIC DIFFERENCE | The Church and the "New Normal"
George Weigel In the wake of the Supreme Court's marriage decision, these sober thoughts occur:(1) The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) has rendered a decision that puts the Court at odds...
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THE CATHOLIC DIFFERENCE | Looking toward Election Day
George Weigel To redeploy a phrase from President Gerald Ford, our "long national nightmare"– in this case, the semi-permanent presidential campaign – will be over in eleven months, or at least...
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Farmington pilgrims are March for Life blizzard-busters
Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker WASHINGTON, D.C. — Late in the evening before of the anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court building stood...
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March for Life marks 43rd anniversary of Roe decision legalizing abortion
By Kurt Jensen | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON -- Catholic admonitions about inclusion mixed with strong political language before the March of Life got underway Jan. 22 in Washington.At a...
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Justice Scalia remembered as upstanding Catholic and jurist
Mark Pattison | Catholic News Service WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died of apparent natural causes Feb. 13 while in Texas on a hunting trip, once said that while he took his...
View ArticleAbortion case uncertain after Justice Scalia’s death
Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker There are few cases standing before the U.S. Supreme Court that Justice Antonin Scalia's death will affect in a complex way. One of...
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