Affordable child care key component of post-Roe response, advocates say February 5, 2023By Kate Scanlon OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, Social Justice, World News Affordable child care must be a core component of a post-Roe response from the Church, advocates at the Catholic Social Ministry Gathering said on Jan. 30.
Personal accompaniment key to Vatican’s expanded vision for marriage formation January 22, 2023By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News First issued in Italian in June with an English translation published in October, “Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life” presents a three-stage approach to preparing men and women for Catholic marriage.
RADIO INTERVIEW: The Holy Family January 3, 2023By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Christmas, Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Radio Interview The Holy Family holds lessons for all of us about how to pray, how to trust in God and live in love.
After vote, House sends Respect for Marriage Act to Biden for signature December 9, 2022By Catholic News Service Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, U.S. Congress, World News By a vote of 258-169, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Respect for Marriage Act Dec. 8 and sent it to President Joe Biden for his signature.
Give joyful witness and lobby hard for families, pope tells Italian groups December 2, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Italy’s declining birthrate is alarming, and groups that assist Italian families must do more both in terms of lobbying and witnessing to the joy of family life, Pope Francis said.
Bishop Barron disappointed by Senate passage of Respect for Marriage Act November 30, 2022By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, U.S. Congress, World News The bill codifies the Supreme Court’s 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges that found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
Bishops reiterate church’s ‘firm opposition’ to Respect for Marriage Act November 29, 2022By Julie Asher Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, U.S. Congress, World News The chairmen of two U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ committee’s reiterated the U.S. bishops’ ” firm opposition” to the “misnamed” the Respect for Marriage Act.
Pope: Church’s concern for the family goes beyond focus on couples October 24, 2022By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News The importance of the family for the Catholic Church and for society means that theological reflection on family life and pastoral responses to the joys and problems of families must focus on more than the relationship between a husband and wife, Pope Francis said.
Family under attack by ideologies, pope says September 1, 2022By Junno Arocho Esteves Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, Vatican, World News Addressing the Schonstatt Fathers, who were in Rome for their general chapter Sept. 1, the pope urged them to be “bearers of a message of hope in these dark situations that people in every stage of life are going through.”
Protection of children now in sights of Congress, FTC, tech firms September 1, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Child & Youth Protection, Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, U.S. Congress, World News The FTC’s newest commission, Omar Bedoya, said that the protection of children is one of the FTC’s policy areas where there is bipartisanship.
USCCB’s Labor Day statement touts bills to help children, women, families August 31, 2022By Mark Pattison Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, U.S. Congress, World News This year’s annual Labor Day statement from the U.S. bishops touts two bills awaiting action in Congress as being helpful to children, women and families: the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and an expansion of the federal child tax credit.
RADIO INTERVIEW: A practical guide for raising families August 22, 2022By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Radio Interview Kristen Fisher shares how every person has a deep desire and pattern of preference for either beauty, truth or goodness.