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1 - Feb 2016 - Anglican Communion: Anglican Primates suspend US Episcopal Church over same-sex marriage, AD2000 Report
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Following repeated decisions of the US Episcopal Church to ordain openly homosexual clergy and gay bishops and more recently endorse same-sex marriage the senior body in the Anglican communion has voted to suspend the Episcopal Church from full membership of the Anglican communion.
2 - Feb 2016 - Marriage: Pope Francis confirms no change to annulment rules, AD2000 Report
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In his annual address to judges of the Holy Sees main court last month Pope Francis affirmed the indissolubility of marriage and clarified that poorly developed personal faith is not itself a grounds for finding that a marriage is null.
3 - Dec 2015 - Letters: Synod outcome "led by the Holy Spirit"
Thank you to the author of Synod re affirms church teaching pm sexuality marriage and the family (AD2000 November2015).
4 - Dec 2015 - Germany: Pope Francis deplores decline of Catholicism in Germany, AD2000 Report
Fewer and fewer Catholics enter into the sacrament of marriage.
5 - Dec 2015 - Religious freedom: Catholic bishops face more than prosecution over marriage leaflet, Pat Byrne
The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC) and Archbishop Julian Porteous are facing prosecution under Tasmanias anti-discrimination law after the Archbishop distributed the ACBCs leaflet Dont Mess with Marriage.
6 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: Sydney Anglicans reaffirm church teaching on marriage, AD2000 Report
The Sydney Anglican Synod last month voted to re-affirm the churchs teaching that marriage is the union of a man and a woman and called for all Australian Christians to respectfully engage in the public debate on redefining marriage.
7 - Nov 2015 - Marriage: SSM will threaten religious liberty in Australia: Archbishop Fisher, AD2000 Report
Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP has warned that the adoption of same-sex marriage in Australia will radically undermine religious liberty by restricting the freedom of belief and practice by Christians who uphold traditional marriage.
8 - Nov 2015 - Anglican Ordinariate: Radical ecumenism – the Ordinariate’s new Catholic Missal, Fr Ramsay Williams
It contains the pastoral services of Baptism Confirmation Marriage and Funerals.
9 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Pope Francis confirms Synod guided by the Holy Spirit
In his address at the conclusion of the Synod of Bishops on the Family Pope Francis gave an address which drew together the key elements of the Synods outcome confirming that despite differences in culture the church is united in upholding the institution of marriage between one man and one woman for life and the dignity of the family.
10 - Nov 2015 - Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on sexuality, marriage and the family, AD2000 Report
Despite repeated claims in the secular media and on some Catholic blogs that the Synod of Bishops meeting in Rome had radically changed the churchs teachings on marriage and the family the Final Report of the Synod reaffirmed the churchs teaching with a new emphasis on understanding the difficulties in living the Christian life and of providing effective pastoral care.
11 - Oct 2015 - Letters: The rights of children, Robert Bom
The rights and needs of children will suffer if marriage is changed from being between man and woman only.
12 - Oct 2015 - The Rosary: The Luminous Mysteries explained, Audrey English
Marriage is sanctified by the miracle of Cana.
13 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral visit: Pope Francis’ subtle challenge to Barack Obama, AD2000 Report
The statement followed the US Supreme Court backed by the Obama Administration imposing same-sex marriage throughout the United States and the homosexual agenda despite strong opposition from churches and religious organisations.
14 - Oct 2015 - Pastoral statement: Marriage Reinvented?, Bishop Michael Kennedy
Bishop Kennedys pastoral statement on same-sex marriage issued in July discussed the major challenges the Catholic Church individual Catholics and society face if the law in marriage is changed.
15 - Sep 2015 - Books: YEAR OF THE LORD’S FAVOUR: A Homiliary for the Roman Liturgy, Aidan Nichols OP, Paul Simmons
Fr Nichols says With considerable boldness the Roman Liturgy applies to todays Solemnity this text from an ancient Israelite wedding song probably written for the marriage of the rather dodgy King Ahab to the quite unspeakable Princess Jezebel.
16 - Sep 2015 - Letters: Media bias on “same-sex marriage”, Robert Bom
The debate about same-sex marriage is one-sided when essential information supporting traditional marriage is blocked and the message cannot get to the public.
17 - Sep 2015 - Preview: Mercy and compassion: focus of Synod of Bishops, Peter Westmore
While the issue of reception of Holy Communion for those in second marriages was the hot button issue at the first session of the Synod which reaffirmed the churchs traditional teaching on marriage the Draft Document prepared for the Synod Fathers shows that it will cover the whole range of issues affecting families as well as controversial issues such as the increasing number of young people who do not marry cohabitation the pastoral care of homosexuals and lesbians.
18 - Sep 2015 - The Americas: Pope Francis’ challenge to American Catholics, AD2000 Report
The World Meeting of Families will give the Holy Father the opportunity to reaffirm the churchs teaching on marriage and the family.
19 - Aug 2015 - Books: THE EAR OF THE HEART: An Actress’ Journey from Hollywood to Holy Vows, Michael E Daniel
Born Dolores Hicks in 1938 to teenage parents Bert and Harriett Hicks her parents marriage ended in divorce with her parents separating when she was a small child.
20 - Aug 2015 - Letters: “Same-sex marriage”: how much support?, Arnold Jago
According to the UK Independent a recent US poll has found only 39 percent of Americans supporting the legalisation of same-sex marriage 42 percent opposed it and 18 percent were neutral.
21 - Aug 2015 - Africa: Nigerian bishops decry “propagation of the homosexual lifestyle”
The Catholic Bishops in Nigeria have released a statement Our Stand On Marriage family and human society in which they denounce the recent rise in Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender activism and encourage leaders legislators and judges to shun all pressures and protect all Nigerians from the growing but dangerous influence of pro-homosexual propaganda coming from the West.
22 - Aug 2015 - 5: Greek Orthodox Church’s Encyclical on marriage, AD2000 Report
The Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in Australia Archbishop Stylianos has issued an encyclical supporting the universal definition of marriage in response to the push for same-sex marriage in Federal Parliament.
23 - Aug 2015 - Marriage: We must stand up for marriage and the family: Archbishop Fisher, Archbishop Anthony Fisher
Marriage as traditionally understood as universally understood when Jeanette Alexander and our jubilarians entered into it meant a comprehensive bodily psychological and spiritual union between a man and a woman whereby they become one flesh and so found a family.
24 - Jul 2015 - Letters: Don’t create a new stolen generation, Robert Bom
If the Bill to change the Marriage Act passes children affected will lose more rights to have a father and a mother.
25 - Jul 2015 - Marriage: The slippery slope to same-sex “marriage”, Anne Lastman
In the raging debate about same sex marriage what is at stake is not equality or even rights.
26 - Jul 2015 - Religious freedom: Gay lobby targets Tasmania’s Archbishop Julian Porteous, AD2000 Report
The national director of the same-sex marriage lobby group Australian Marriage Equality (AME) has threatened to invoke anti-discrimination legislation against Tasmanias Archbishop Julian Porteous after 12000 copies of the Australian Catholic Bishops Pastoral Letter Dont Mess With Marriage was given to Tasmanian high school students to take home.
27 - Jul 2015 - Family Synod: African bishops pledge to uphold Church teaching on marriage, AD2000 Report
In mid-June the presidents of Africas episcopal conferences met in Accra capital of Ghana and unanimously endorsed a statement for the forthcoming Synod of Bishops which rejects the strategy of the Enemy of the human race on divorce and homosexual unions and upholds the Churchs constant teaching on marriage.
28 - Jun 2015 - Letters: Sexual abuse of children, Arnold Jago
To reduce child abuse drastically would require drastic changes -- not just in institutions but inside our homes and inside our heads including embracing loyalty exclusively to traditional man-woman marriage and elimination of all forms of pornography.
29 - Jun 2015 - Family: Pope Francis upholds Church teaching on the family, Fr Ken CLark OLSC
One of the things that the world is changing is the definition and the sanctity of marriage redefining family and family values.
30 - Apr 2015 - Today's prophets: where are they?, Anne Lastman
Looking around society we see abuse of sexuality abortion in holocaust dimensions homosexuality not only practised but demanded as a right and defined as marriage.
31 - Apr 2015 - Contemporary challenges facing Catholicism: Interview with Cardinal Robert Sarah, Élisabeth de Baudoüin
In this exclusive interview Cardinal Robert Sarah the new Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments candidly discusses liturgical battles criticism of the Pope same sex marriage Islam and Islamism and how Africa can save the West.
32 - Apr 2015 - Designer babies: Dolce&Gabbana versus Elton John, Fr Dwight Longenecker
Italian fashion designers Dolceamp;Gabbana waded into a gay rights hurricane last week by criticising same sex marriage and designer babies.
33 - Apr 2015 - Editorial: Welcome!
Other articles feature the extraordinary resurgence in vocations to the priesthood across Australia the controversial comments by Italian fashion designers on same-sex marriage feature articles by Anne Lastman and Audrey English and much more.
34 - Mar 2015 - Books: MODERN MORAL PROBLEMS: Trustworthy Answers to Tough Questions, William B Smith, Michael E. Daniel
Thus although the answers remain relevant some of the current burning or hot issues such as same sex marriage do not receive extensive treatment.
35 - Mar 2015 - Letters: Synod of Bishops, John R. Barich
None of the experts from the various John Paul II Institutes on Marriage and the Family were asked to contribute despite some of them being leading theologians e.
36 - Mar 2015 - Seventh iWitness Retreat: another youth ministry success, Br Barry Coldrey
The vision of Jesus in the New Testament and the consistent teaching of the Church confront this perversion: marriage is a covenant a one-flesh union and sex is the seal on this permanent relationship.
37 - Mar 2015 - The person and mission of St Joseph, Pope St John Paul
As can be deduced from the gospel texts Josephs marriage to Mary is the juridical basis of his fatherhood.
38 - Mar 2015 - News: The Church Around the World
Then in a remark clearly aimed at the growing drive for acceptance of same-sex unions he added The family is also threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage.
39 - Mar 2015 - Synod: AFA calls for Synod to strengthen support for families, AD2000 Report
In response to the request by the Synod on the Family for input from lay people around the world the Australian Family Association has responded by urging the Synod to more strongly emphasise the role of the family to the stability security and prosperity of society and to make promotion of a proper understanding of marriage and family central to the Churchs catechesis.
40 - Feb 2015 - Letters: Mary in St John's Gospel, Dr Frank Mobbs
In support she cites the only two references to Mary in the Gospel: (1) at the marriage feast of Cana (John 2:1-12) and (2) when Mary stood at the foot of the cross and Jesus said to the beloved disciple Behold your mother.
41 - Feb 2015 - The family and the Church in 2015, Archbishop Mark Coleridge
Marriage is increasingly seen as a relationship between two people which offers emotional support to the spouses for a longer or shorter time.
42 - Feb 2015 - The survival of the Church, Fr John O'Neill PP
Do these successors of the apostles not know that marriage is Gods holy institution for man and woman holily and permanently united by the Christ-given Sacrament to help Him create citizens for Heaven.
43 - Dec 2014 - Support: 2014 Fighting Fund Progress
In the October issue we commenced acknowledgement of donations received for the 2014 Fighting Fund which provides the means to fight for public policies which support life defend the institution of marriage recognise the importance of the Judeo-Christian values which underpin our society and advance the interests of Australian families.
44 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Language, Frank O'Connor
The letter of Anne Lastman in the October issue of AD2000 under the above title quite correctly points out that the use of the term same sex marriage should not be used because it quite wrongly associates homosexual acts with marriage.
45 - Dec 2014 - Letters: Synod of Bishops, Arnold Jago
As was obvious from the start to anyone really thinking about it the recent Vatican Synod on the Family was never going to move to approve of same-sex marriage.
46 - Dec 2014 - Cardinal Pell: Synod rebuts 'secular agenda', Catholic News Service
We wanted the Catholic people around the world to know actually what was going on in talking about marriage and the family and by and large I think people will be immensely reassured Cardinal Pell prefect of the Secretariat for the Economy told Catholic News Service on 16 October 2014 the day the reports were published.
47 - Dec 2014 - Economic justice: The Catholic Church explains sexual mores - with economics, Emma Green
In third-world countries they say material poverty encourages people to live in common-law marriages.
48 - Dec 2014 - The Long View: Catholicism today and the lessons of history, John Young
For example they note the denial by moral theologians of even fundamental moral truths as in the approval of same-sex marriage.
49 - Dec 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Aid to the Church in Need Cardinal Dolan: reaffirm marriage teaching Cardinal Timothy Dolan of New York a participant in the Synod of Bishops said in an interview that we want to be as clear and as compelling as possible in reaffirming the Churchs timeless teaching on marriage and family without scaring people off and without seeming to marginalise.
50 - Dec 2014 - Family Synod: Synod reaffirms Church teaching on marriage and family, AD2000 Report
In its concluding Message the Extraordinary Synod of Bishops in Rome has reaffirmed the Churchs unbroken teaching on marriage and the family and urged bishops priests and the laity to protect and defend marriage while dealing compassionately with those whose marriages are in trouble or have failed.
51 - Nov 2014 - Why we make the Sign of the Cross, Cedric Wright
It is used at baptism confirmation marriage all manner of consecration and blessing and at the end of our lives graces the valediction of burial.
52 - Nov 2014 - Why be a priest?, Fr John O'Neill
Despite the holiness and wonder of married love the priests love is so absorbed in Christ and all mankind that it works on a higher plane even than that of marriage.
53 - Nov 2014 - Formation: 'I used to be a Catholic', Audrey English
Take the references to Peter the rock on which the Church is built the statements about Purgatory (even though the word itself is not mentioned) the indissolubility of marriage the command to let the children come to Jesus and not to deny them baptism.
54 - Nov 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Although he did not allude to current debates about easing the rigour of Church discipline regarding marriage and divorce in the past he has spoken out against changes in existing policy.
55 - Nov 2014 - Episcopacy: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP appointed Archbishop of Sydney, AD2000 Report
He later founded the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
56 - Oct 2014 - Support: Support the Fighting Fund!
Many of the challenges we have faced in the past continue: the relentless push for same-sex marriage anti-discrimination legislation which targeted the churches and believers and the push for physician-assisted suicide to name just three.
57 - Oct 2014 - Letters: Evangelii Gaudium speaks to Victoria, Pat Shea
Additionally some will introduce new laws relating to end of life and homosexual marriage.
58 - Oct 2014 - Letters: Use and misuse of language, Anne Lastman
I personally dont like the term same sex marriage because what we are doing is linking marriage as it always has been (man and woman) into a different context and even in some ways legitimising it.
59 - Oct 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Cardinal Mller confirms Church teachings The prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Cardinal Gerhard Mller has reminded the faithful that the indissolubility of marriage is a dogma of the Church.
60 - Sep 2014 - Books: ON HEAVEN AND EARTH: Pope Francis on Faith, Family and the Church in the 21st C, Br Barry Coldrey
They discuss frankly but respectfully many different topics including inter-religious dialogue the Holocaust abortion divorce death same-sex marriage and nationalism just to name a few topics.
61 - Sep 2014 - Transmission of the Catholic faith in crisis, Peter Finlayson
More than 50% of survey participants favour gay marriage contraception alternative means of conception divorcees remarriage without annulment homosexual sexual relations and de facto relationships.
62 - Sep 2014 - Christian witness in a secular world, Fr Paul Rowse OP
The full meaning of our human death this veil thrown over our faces until the consummation of the mystical marriage is that we are not in control of the Church.
63 - Sep 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Noting how there are two typically African problems Fr Ciucci explained that the first is polygamy and the second one is the difficulty in putting together the three traditional ways of marriage in Africa.
64 - Aug 2014 - Reflection: The Assumption: Mary leads us to Heaven, Bishop Anthony Fisher
Advocates of so-called marriage equality claim that the complementarity of male and female bodies and the consequent fertility and family are irrelevant to marriage.
65 - Aug 2014 - War of words: changing society through language, Audrey English
Saying partner when we mean husband wife or spouse devalues marriage.
66 - Aug 2014 - Pope Francis discusses the Church's moral teachings, LifeSiteNews
That question has been raised a number of times since disputed rumours emerged last year that while serving as an archbishop in Argentina he had proposed civil unions as a compromise to the countrys then-proposed same-sex marriage law.
67 - Aug 2014 - Pope Francis condemns 'Gender ideology' as 'demonic', Patrick Byrne
Thus the Church reaffirms her great yes to the dignity and beauty of marriage as an expression of the faithful and generous bond between man and woman and her no to gender philosophies because the reciprocity between male and female is an expression of the beauty of nature willed by the Creator.
68 - Aug 2014 - Uncovering the ideas behind the 'culture of death', Donald DeMarco
Consequently love marriage and the building up of society all of which require the ability to postpone pleasure are compromised in the process.
69 - Aug 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
He is also noted for his defence of innocent human life and of marriage and the family.
70 - Jul 2014 - Letters: Faith the solution, Tim Coyle
The society we used to know continues to fragment into the bizarre nonsense of biological inaccuracies males claiming the Medicare benefit for abortion and with same sex marriage only a Prime Minister away.
71 - Jun 2014 - Letters: Modern slavery report, Laurie Sheehan
This ranking also reflects high levels of child marriage and to a lesser extent human trafficking.
72 - Jun 2014 - Religious freedom and same-sex 'marriage', Fr John FLynn LC
His crime: some years ago he gave $1000 to support Proposition 8 in California which sought to keep the state from recognising same-sex marriage.
73 - Jun 2014 - US Catholic school embroiled in dispute over Church teaching, Kirsten Andersen
But Catholic observers suggest the controversy is part of a growing tendency to uproar against Catholics for simply professing Church teaching on marriage and homosexuality.
74 - Jun 2014 - Fr Des Byrne: priest and catechist extraordinary, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
With an ever alert mind he took up studies in bioethics at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
75 - Jun 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Two years later after same sex marriage was legalised in New Hampshire Bishop Robinson married his partner.
76 - May 2014 - Books: HOW THE WEST WON: The Neglected Story of the Triumph of Modernity, Rodney Stark, Father John Flynn LC
The seven characteristics were: human dignity; freedom and responsibility; the sanctity of life; the concept of guilt as opposed to shame; the significance of marriage as the matrix of society; society as a covenant; and since every society is the result of the covenant it means all human power all political authority is subject to the transcending authority of the Divine.
77 - May 2014 - Cardinal Burke: The Gospel of Life in the defence of freedom, Cardinal Raymond Burke
The truth the goodness and the beauty of human life of marriage and the family the cradle of human life and of religious faith and practice as the font of stability and direction for marriage and the family have their only source in God who is all true all good and all beautiful.
78 - Apr 2014 - Depression: Charlotte Dawson: she died of a broken heart, Anne Lastman
In her very frank autobiography Air Kiss amp; Tell (2012) Charlotte speaks openly about her private life including her marriage to the much younger and much loved husband Scott Miller and their decision to abort their child because it would interfere with his gold medal quest at the 2000 Summer Olympics.
79 - Apr 2014 - Marriage: Don't trust media reporting of Synod on marriage, Philip F. Lawler
In the full interview the Pope did however firmly reassert the Churchs teaching on a closely related issue: Marriage is between a man and a woman.
80 - Apr 2014 - Russia: the rebirth of religious belief, Peter Westmore
The Russian Orthodox Church has been one of the principal defenders of marriage and so the push for same-sex marriage has made no headway in Russia.
81 - Apr 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Virginia judge overturns marriage defence A federal district court judge has ruled that Virginias marriage amendment which defines marriage as the union of one man and one woman is unconstitutional.
82 - Feb 2014 - Reflections: Australia Day: A time for thanks and commitment, Cardinal George Pell
The rule of law deriving from the natural law and the Ten Commandments remains the essential moral framework and the Christian struggle for social justice for human life for marriage and family for honesty and integrity for a loving self-discipline in sexual matters all combine to make Australian society better and healthier.
83 - Feb 2014 - Letters: Spirit of Vatican II, Murray Cook
It seems that with the contraceptive mind set the need for instant gratification is to hold sway in the marriage act.
84 - Feb 2014 - iWitness 2013 retreat: another young Catholics success story, Br Barry Coldrey
iWitness is arranged by a leadership group assisted by the resources of the Catholic Life Marriage and Family office of the Archdiocese of Sydney.
85 - Feb 2014 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Croatian referendum defends marriage Two-thirds of Croatian voters approved of constitutional changes to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman in a December refer-endum.
86 - Feb 2014 - Editorial: In defence of marriage, Peter Westmore
The institution of marriage has existed for as long as civilisation certainly longer than any government or organised religion but over the past two millennia Christianity has played a key role in defending marriage and the family following the very clear statements which Jesus made in relation to the permanence of marriage and its essential character as the union of a man and a woman.
87 - Dec 2013 - Fighting Fund: Progress on 2013 Fighting Fund, Peter Westmore
In the October issue we commenced acknowledgement of donations received for the 2013 Fighting Fund which provides the means to fight for public policies which support life defend the institution of marriage recognise the importance of the Judeo-Christian values which underpin our society and advance the interests of Australian families.
88 - Dec 2013 - Books: HOLY SEE, UNHOLY ME by Tim Fischer, John Barich
Another productive conference unveiled the original petition of Henry VIII for annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon.
89 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Errors, Peter D. Howard
On the question of contraception in marriage Dr Frank Mobbs is in error as with his assertion (August AD2000) that total love of husband and wife is quite compatible with the use of contraceptives and in the majority of cases would involve no harm to anyone.
90 - Dec 2013 - Letters: Right of conscience, Marian Grima
The Church is not a cafeteria where we can decide for ourselves via conscience what is right and wrong whether it be abortion or gay marriage.
91 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (2), Anne Lastman
Continued from the first part of this article - Laity and Clergy The family is central The role of the family is central: The lay faithfuls duty to society primarily begins in marriage and in the family.
92 - Dec 2013 - Christifidelis Laici: vocation and mission of the lay faithful (1), Anne Lastman
The apostolate of the laity is most truly fulfilled and understood as an apostolate of like to like not only in the area of marriage and sexuality as expressed in Humanae Vitae but in catechesis beginning in the family friendship circles parish society work recreation in communities and the world.
93 - Dec 2013 - Inspirational Young Men of God retreat, Br Barry Coldrey
Other speakers included Francine Pirola Director of the Marriage Resource Centre and Joe Dean Sola Founder of CARES an organisation in the Philippines ministering to desperately poor street kids in the grim Manila slums.
94 - Dec 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
According to Professor Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne) Dr Kozinski is one of the most exciting young Catholic scholars of the liberal arts.
95 - Nov 2013 - Support: 2013 Fighting Fund Progress Report, Peter Westmore
In the October issue we commenced acknowledgement of donations received for the 2013 Fighting Fund which provides the means to fight for public policies which support life defend the institution of marriage recognise the importance of the Judeo-Christian values which underpin our society and advance the interests of Australian families.
96 - Nov 2013 - Books: WHO NEEDS GOD?, by Barbara Stockl with Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, Br Barry Coldrey
Moreover the new evangelisation attempts to dialogue with those of the active Catholic minority who have abandoned key areas of their faith as they move to a cafeteria Christianity according to their shifting tastes specifically: the large numbers of Catholic couples who cohabit from an early age without any thought of marriage; the many remarried divorcees some of whom are Catholics who wish to receive Holy Communion at Mass; the increasing reality of same sex partnerships even among some who consider themselves active practising Christians in the Catholic tradition; and the public disregarding by some theologians priests and religious of definitive decisions of the Churchs Magisterium such as the question of the ordination of women.
97 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Finding balance, Walter H. Kirk
Understandably given the wide-spread opposition disregard or ignorance surrounding this teaching those anxious to defend or justify it tend to emphasise the marital benefits said to result from observing the teaching and the evil fallout from a contraceptive mentality as evidenced in the massive worldwide increase since the late 1960s in the number of abortions and broken marriages plus the acceptance of homosexual acts and calls for gay marriage to be legitimised.
98 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Clutching at straws, Anne Lastman
So to protect marriage from false love it needs to be free fruitful faithful and total.
99 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Three to get married, Cedric Wright
The article by Anne Lastman in the September issue (A covenant: essence of true marriage) should be compulsory reading for every young couple as they prepare for their wedding.
100 - Nov 2013 - Letters: Australia's new Prime Minister, Arnold Jago
The Pope had said that priests should focus on being merciful and welcoming rather than insisting only on divisive issues such as abortion same sex marriage and contraception.
101 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: English bishop warns on same-sex marriage law, Bishop Philip Egan
Two weeks ago (17 July 2013) Royal Assent was given to the controversial Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 which attempts to redefine the institution of marriage and to extend marriage to same-sex couples (gay and lesbian).
102 - Nov 2013 - Marriage: Humanae Vitae: for an excellent love, Anne Lastman
It is the conjugal union or marriage act when pure and truthful in its entirety that is clearly illuminated by God and seen as the continuation of His own work and the ecstasy with which He created.
103 - Nov 2013 - Culture: Cardinal Pell: defend religious freedom, Cardinal George Pell
It is no longer unusual in places such as the UK the US and Canada for people to be penalised or dismissed from their jobs excluded from providing services to children and counselling and dragged through human rights employment and anti-discrimination tribunals simply for holding to or merely expressing their religious and conscientious convictions about issues such as abortion marriage and sexuality.
104 - Nov 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Speaking in a keynote address at a conference at the Teatro Manzoni in Bologna in September Cardinal Caffarra identified the largest question facing Italian society: Is marriage a reality at the disposal of men or does it have a hard core that is not open to human preference?
105 - Nov 2013 - Editorial: Pope Francis' call to holiness, Peter Westmore
Following the interview numerous media outlets picked up a comment that the Pope made: We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods.
106 - Oct 2013 - Support: Launch of 2013 Fighting Fund, Peter Westmore
The Fighting Fund is a means by which readers of this publication can support the continued existence of AD2000 as well as the broader works of the National Civic Council including those in support of human life which is threatened by abortion euthanasia and people trafficking and the institution of natural marriage against the forces which would fundamentally change it by redefining it to include same-sex unions.
107 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Culture of life needed, Fr Bernard McGrath
The loss of respect for life and motherhood leads to abortion infanticide sterilisation infidelity divorce homosexuality same-sex marriage assisted suicide euthanasia and even imposed population controls in some countries.
108 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Creator's plan, Clare Ryan
But can he explain why since the advent of the Pill infidelity within marriage broken families and divorces have all sky-rocketed?
109 - Oct 2013 - Letters: Humanae Vitae, Ron Graham
There are three partners in the marriage act not the least by far being Almighty God.
110 - Oct 2013 - The priesthood and the Catholic faith, Fr John O'Neill PP
The most obvious means is the religious life by which men or women live in community under the three vows of poverty chastity and obedience lifting them above the pursuit of riches from even the noble love of marriage and from their own wayward wills and for her vast flock the lay people she has given rise to countless organisations all designed to provide effective ways of living the essence of Christianity charity.
111 - Oct 2013 - The Catholic Church is holy, despite its members' sins, Audrey English
We could be tempted to accept self-contradictory ideas such as safe abortion same-sex marriage mercy killing.
112 - Oct 2013 - Pope Francis to consecrate world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Peter Westmore
Mary then said to the servants at the marriage feast Do whatever he tells you!
113 - Oct 2013 - Editorial: Postscript on the Australian elections, Peter Westmore
Mr Abbott is socially conservative being a strong supporter of natural marriage and the family and has deplored the number of abortions in Australia.
114 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Anti-life values, Andrew Foong
The Roman Catechism for example states: Whoever in marriage artificially prevents conception or procures an abortion commits a most serious sin: the sin of premeditated murder.
115 - Sep 2013 - Letters: Contraception is harmful, Anne Lastman
My article did refer to Humanae Vitaes glowing account of marriage as total love of husband and wife.
116 - Sep 2013 - A covenant: essence of true marriage, Anne Lastman
In this decisive moment where marriage and family life are being challenged and threatened it is important to restate exactly what marriage is and why it is so crucial to understand that marriage is a covenant between a male and a female.
117 - Sep 2013 - The Church's crises old and new, Bishop James D. Conley
The sexual revolution - which would lead to an all-pervasive contraceptive mentality abortion and a grave threat to marriage itself - was beginning in earnest.
118 - Sep 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
The Churchs teaching which is based on the Bible and Gods revelation is that sexual love is reserved only between a man and woman in the lifelong life-giving relationship of marriage and any relations outside of that hetero or homo would be less than Gods intention.
119 - Sep 2013 - Hobart's new Archbishop ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
Challenges As auxiliary bishop and a close associate of Cardinal George Pell for the past decade Bishop Porteous is well equipped to meet Tasmanias challenges: re-evangelising the Catholic population monitoring religion programs in schools bringing the Christian message on marriage family and life issues to the public square and inspiring more vocations to the priesthood and religious life.
120 - Sep 2013 - Editorial: Catholic voters and the 2013 Federal Election
Issues such as abortion same-sex marriage and euthanasia: these are some of the benchmarks by which Catholics determine their vote and yet it is often so hard to gain a clear picture.
121 - Aug 2013 - Letters: Humanae Vitae, Frank Mobbs
She refers to Humanae Vitaes glowing account of marriage as total love of husband and wife.
122 - Aug 2013 - Lumen Fidei: The great gift of Faith: Pope Francis' first encyclical, Damian Wyld
Family is the first setting in which faith enlightens the human city being first and foremost of the stable union of man and woman in marriage.
123 - Aug 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
In the newly-released book Man to Man Dad to Dad: Catholic Faith and Fatherhood (Pauline Press) Caulfield compiles advice for men with short entries from several contributors including a cardinal a marriage counsellor and a professor.
124 - Aug 2013 - Editorial: Church's clear opposition to all same-sex unions
It is evident from the volume of letters received by AD2000 in recent months that marriage is an institution (indeed a sacrament) that readers hold dear.
125 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Christian civil rights, Name and Address Supplied
Marriage and family life are under serious attack in Western societies.
126 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Contact your candidates, Gerard Calilhanna
In the lead up to the federal election it is important that people speak with their candidates and tell them that they oppose any change to the Marriage Act.
127 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Marriage simply is ..., Brian A. Coman
One of the more profoundly disturbing features of the same-sex marriage debate is that we are having it at all and that ordinary standards seem to have degenerated to such an extent that a significant number of people have bought the lie that a homosexual union can somehow be equated with traditional marriage.
128 - Jul 2013 - Letters: Healthy families vital, Brendan Keogh
The clamour for same-sex marriages further compounds this problem.
129 - Jul 2013 - Parody?: Anti-Catholic hate speech, Aussie Style (Move on, nothing to see here), R.J. Stove
This sanguine approach is no longer tenable at a time when an Irish-style national commission to investigate clerical sex abuse is already afoot when if American-type duty of care legislation applied here every single Australian bishop would be certainly in court and probably in jail and when the theologically illiterate Catholic Premier of New South Wales Barry OFarrell has both demanded the legalisation of same-sex marriage ( The Sydney Morning Herald 18 April 2013) and called for the abolition of priests rights to keep confessions secret ( The Age November 14 2012).
130 - Jul 2013 - Human dignity: Defence of marriage must be linked to defence of parenthood, Denise Hunnell
The push to redefine marriage to include same-sex couples is a movement to abolish the sociological connection between children and their biological parents.
131 - Jul 2013 - Cardinal Ouellet's Australian lecture: rediscover human nature, Owen Vyner
Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops visited Australia recently and delivered the Harman Lecture for the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
132 - Jul 2013 - Paul VI: Humanae Vitae: still prophetic after 45 years, Anne Lastman
The document stresses that marriage and sexuality call for a love which is total and where the husband and wife generously share everything without undue reservations or selfish calculations.
133 - Jul 2013 - Homily: Saints John Fisher and Thomas More: from Pope Pius XI's canonisation homily
It was because of his courageous determination to defend the sacred bond of Christian marriage - a bond indissoluble for all even for those who wear the royal diadem - and to vindicate the Primacy with which the Roman Pontiffs are invested by divine command that he was imprisoned and afterwards led to death.
134 - Jun 2013 - Reflection: Marriage: a reflection of Christ's love for us, Fr Paul Chandler
In a less direct way it is also about marriage since adultery is a severe wound inflicted upon a marriage.
135 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Truth about marriage, Name and Address Supplied
Marriage is both a personal and a public institution for the good of society.
136 - Jun 2013 - Letters: Rights of children, Arnold Jago
Only a certain kind of family will do: a family based on the marriage and ongoing fidelity of one man and one woman.
137 - Jun 2013 - Why we need the Rosary, Cedric Wright
He was journeying to New York to officiate at the marriage of his brother.
138 - Jun 2013 - Redefining marriage: what of the rights of children?, Denise Hunnell
The push to redefine marriage to accommodate same-sex couples spans the globe.
139 - Jun 2013 - Farcical history: the 'Gospel of Jesus' wife', Frank Mobbs
We must then ask: is there any reason to believe the unknown author knew anything about a marriage of Jesus?
140 - Jun 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Published with the subtitle: Pope Francis on Faith Family and the Church in the 21st Century it offers insights into the Popes thoughts on a wide variety of issues from abortion and same-sex marriage to euthanasia and capitalism.
141 - May 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Pope Francis and British marriage debate The new papacy is already proving relevant to the people of Britain suggests the Archbishop of Westminster as that nation undergoes a debate on the future of marriage.
142 - May 2013 - Francis: pope of paradox, Damian Wyld
Whether it was his comments on life issues or marriage (the latter earning him a public rebuke from the Argentine Government) the then Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio had not shied away from publicly expounding Catholic teaching.
143 - Apr 2013 - Books: THE SEVEN BIG MYTHS ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH, by Christopher Kaczor, Father John Flynn LC
Instead abstinence and fidelity within marriage are the most effective methods and ones taught by the Catholic Church.
144 - Apr 2013 - Venerable Fulton J. Sheen's insights on the priesthood, Martin Tobin
I believe the answer to Sheens ability to present subject matter on topics such as Hell Purgatory birth prevention marriage problems sin and penance death and judgement the Mother of Jesus sanctifying grace original sin and angels can be found in his great holiness and the means by which he kept in touch with the will of God namely through the daily Holy Hour that he made for the duration of his priesthood.
145 - Apr 2013 - Obituary: Vale Dr Lyn Billings AM, DCSG, MBBS (Melb), DCH (Lond), Joan Clements
Who had a profound impact on marriages and families in more than one hundred countries?
146 - Apr 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News African-Americans in US March For Marriage Civil Rights activist Reverend Bill Owens joined with the National Organization for Marriage to promote and lead the March for Marriage in Washington DC on 26 March.
147 - Mar 2013 - Priestly celibacy: being one with Christ and His mission, Father John O'Neill PP
In a good marriage made good by their love for each other they do not have to tell each other on the wedding day that they need a rule to make them love each other.
148 - Mar 2013 - Religious persecution occurs in democracies, Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò
) where young children were obliged to learn about family diversity as presented in a childrens book that elevated as natural and wholesome same-sex relations in marriage.
149 - Mar 2013 - 1000 UK priests sign joint letter against same-sex 'marriage', AD2000 Report
On 11 January 2013 in one of the biggest joint letters of its type ever written over 1000 British Catholic priests almost a quarter of all clergy in England and Wales signed a letter to the London Daily Telegraph arguing that same-sex marriage would restrict the freedom of Catholics to teach the truth about marriage.
150 - Feb 2013 - Fighting Fund: 2012 Fighting Fund update
At the time of writing there are currently three bills before Federal Parliament supporting same-sex unions and additionally Green members of parliament have moved to legalise same-sex marriage at the state level.
151 - Feb 2013 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 2): living under canon law, Frank Mobbs
Except in matters of marriage laity are not often made conscious of Canon Law.
152 - Feb 2013 - Events: iWitness Retreat: a celebration of young adult Catholic faith, Br Barry Coldrey
These sponsors are Cardinal George Pell Bishop Anthony Fisher OP of Parramatta Dooleys Catholic Club Lidcombe and the Marriage and Family Centre of the Archdiocese of Sydney.
153 - Feb 2013 - Marriage: UK Family Court judge: why marriage is worth fighting for, Madonna Brosnan (ed.)
The following are edited extracts from a statement in 2012 by British Family Court judge Sir Paul Coleridge when he announced the launch of The Marriage Foundation (marriagefoundation.
154 - Feb 2013 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News French bishops defend marriage Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois the Archbishop of Paris has pledged that he and other French Catholics will oppose the Socialist governments plans to rewrite the marriage law.
155 - Feb 2013 - Editorial: AD2000 25 years on: the challenges remain, Michael Gilchrist
In most Western countries including Australia attacks on the Churchs positions in defence of marriage family and human life have become more open and aggressive.
156 - Dec 2012 - Reflection: Feast of the Holy Innocents: Rachel weeps for her children, Anne Lastman
It took fourteen years of physical labour and a first marriage to Rebekahs older sister Leah (according to the marriage rules and rites in ancient near eastern traditions Gen 29:15-30) for Isaac to then be able to make her his wife.
157 - Dec 2012 - Support: Fighting Fund
At the time of writing the Commonwealth Parliament has decisively rejected bills to legalise same-sex unions but Green members of parliament have moved to legalise same-sex marriage at the state level.
158 - Dec 2012 - History: Parish life in the Middle Ages (Part 1), Frank Mobbs
Marriage before a priest was not compulsory but when it happened the parish priest alone had the right to conduct it.
159 - Dec 2012 - Events: iWitness Retreat / Campion College Summer Program
com and contact Amy Vierboom Life Marriage and Family Centre Level 11 133 Liverpool Street Sydney NSW 2000.
160 - Dec 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
The Archbishop who took office in March 2011 named five pastoral priorities: improving faith education encouraging vocations to the priesthood and religious life fostering Catholic identity and diversity promoting a culture of life and strengthening marriage and the family.
161 - Dec 2012 - Culture: Western crisis is spiritual: Russian Orthodox leader, Metropolitan Hilarion
In Europe and America we witness growing pressure from those representatives of militant secularism and atheism who attempt to expel Christianity from the public square to ban Christian symbols to destroy traditional Christian understanding of the family of marriage as a union between a man and a woman of the value of human life from inception till natural death.
162 - Nov 2012 - Support: Fighting Fund
At the time of writing there are currently three bills before Federal Parliament supporting same-sex unions and additionally Green members of parliament have moved to legalise same-sex marriage at the state level.
163 - Nov 2012 - Letters: Importance of marriage, Brendan Keogh
The natural foundation of a family is the marriage covenant between a man and a woman to live together exclusively for life for their mutual benefit and the nurture of any children of the marriage.
164 - Nov 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Efforts were also being made to not only apply it in civil law as in matters of marriage and inheritance but to extend it to cover criminal law.
165 - Oct 2012 - Support: 2012 Fighting Fund Progress
At the time of writing there are currently three bills before Federal Parliament supporting same-sex unions and additionally Green members of parliament have moved to legalise same-sex marriage at the state level.
166 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Nuclear family, Leon Voesenek
This law allows one partner to surprise the other with the declaration that the marriage is over without having to give reasons or undertake any negotiations on how fault will be acknowledged.
167 - Oct 2012 - Letters: Information, Robert Bom
Many politicians and delegates to party conferences have little idea what homosexuality and as a result same-sex marriage or civil unions is all about.
168 - Oct 2012 - The new evangelisation and the culture of life, Anne Lastman
New need In conclusion a new need has arisen in our day a need for a new evangelisation especially to those marginalised by the anti-God and anti-life lies: to those who have acquiesced to the whisper that life is not good; to those who have consciously decided that marriage and family between a man and a woman is not the ideal; to those who are consciously seeking to end lives because of a eugenic mentality; to those who have ceased listening to the voice of hope because the culture of death has deafened their hearing.
169 - Oct 2012 - The Year of Faith and true unity of faith, Cardinal Raymond Burke
For example I think of the pervasive violation of the liturgical law of the Church; of the revolution in catechesis which often rendered the teaching of the faith vacuous and confused if not erroneous; of the breakdown of the discipline of priestly formation and priestly life; of the abandonment of the essential elements of religious life and the devastating loss of fundamental direction in many congregations of religious sisters brothers and priests; of the loss of the identity of charitable educational and healthcare institutions bearing the name of Catholic; and the failure of respect for the nature of marriage and the time-proven process for judging claims of nullity of marriage in ecclesiastical tribunals.
170 - Oct 2012 - Universities: Cardinal Pell's tertiary ministry at Sydney's universities, Br Barry Coldrey
Catholics); Does Marriage Equality Matter?
171 - Oct 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Scottish Cardinal ends gay marriage dialogue Cardinal Keith P.
172 - Sep 2012 - Australian Catholic Students Association Conference 2012, Br Barry Coldrey
The ACSA leaders thanked their Sponsors the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference in the persons of Cardinal George Pell and Archbishop Denis Hart the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family and the University Chaplaincies of the Archdiocese of Sydney whose Director Daniel Hill was present at the Conference.
173 - Sep 2012 - Letters: Archbishop Chaput: how to meet the challenges to religious freedom, Archbishop Charles Chaput OFM
Catholic moral convictions about abortion contraception the purpose of sexuality and the nature of marriage are rooted not just in revelation but also in reason and natural law.
174 - Sep 2012 - Film: 'For Greater Glory': an inspiring message for today's Christians, Babette Francis
Catholic bishops and many leaders of other denominations have been active in opposing gay marriage and insisting on the conscience rights of priests and pastors to not be involved in such marriage celebrations.
175 - Sep 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Recognised as a leading force behind the 2008 passage of Proposition 8 the ballot initiative that defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman Archbishop-elect Cordileone was named chairman of the US bishops Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage in 2011 by Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
176 - Sep 2012 - Editorial: 2012 Fighting Fund launched: support Christian values, Peter Westmore
The battle to defend marriage against those forces which would empty it of its meaning as the union of a man and a woman entered into for life will be decided in the weeks and months ahead.
177 - Aug 2012 - Books: HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL IN THE PRIESTLY BREAST: Procedural Justice, Michael Thomas
He is well equipped to address the highly sensitive theme of clerical child abuse having degrees in Psychology and Educational and Counselling Psychology and a Doctorate in Marriage Counselling.
178 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Marriage, Peter J. Young
What marriage is and what it is not must not be decided by the chief priests of gay rallies.
179 - Aug 2012 - Letters: Fact-filled article, Thomas and Patricia Watkin
Obama and same-sex marriage: Shaking his fist at God (July AD2000) by Babette Francis with an eye-catching photograph of Rev Franklin Graham introduced an uplifting and instructive experience to our family!
180 - Aug 2012 - Marriage: Archbishop Hickey: the Eucharist and the Christian family, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Christian marriage is now under fierce and hostile attack and we cannot let that deter us from affirming the great vision of Jesus and St Paul to a world desperately in need of it.
181 - Aug 2012 - Youth: Young adult Catholics peer ministry in WA and Queensland, Br Barry Coldrey
Thereafter Bruce did voluntary work for the Church when he was able but with marriage and a growing family of five children he needed a well-paid position.
182 - Aug 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Australian Associated Press UK gay marriage laws: no protection for churches British Prime Minister David Camerons promise to protect churches from gay marriage laws could hit legal hurdles a justice minister admitted on 11 June.
183 - Jul 2012 - Letters: Transubstantiation, Frank Mobbs
Early Christian writers argued that if Jesus could change water into wine as he did at the marriage feast of Cana then he would have no trouble changing bread and wine into his body and blood.
184 - Jul 2012 - Austrian Chancellor's son: How faith helped to survive the Nazis, Michelle Baumann
Janet who grew up in Atlanta Georgia said that over their years of marriage her husband told her stories about his life in Austria.
185 - Jul 2012 - Obama and same-sex 'marriage': Shaking his fist at God, Babette Francis
Evangelist Franklin Graham son of famous preacher Rev Billy Graham said President Obama has shaken his fist at God by voicing support for gay marriage.
186 - Jul 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News UK Catholic schools under fire over gay marriage The government of Wales is moving against Catholic schools that organised students to sign a petition against the governments plans to legalise gay marriage.
187 - Jul 2012 - Religious Freedom: Prague's Cardinal Duka thanks Australians for helping religious prisoners, Peter Westmore
Cardinal Duka was very interested in the state of the Catholic Church in Australia and in the battle over same-sex marriage here particularly the efforts of all those working to preserve the institution of marriage as the union of one man and one woman.
188 - Jun 2012 - Books: ABOUT BIOETHICS: Philosophical and Theological Approaches, Angela Schumann
Not only is Dr Tonti-Filippini highly qualified with an extensive list of academic credentials including the current position he holds as Associate Dean and Head of Bioethics at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Melbourne he also has behind him decades of experience working on the front line of medical and social ethics such as chairing a National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Working Committee and having been Australias first hospital ethicist in the early 1980s at St Vincents Hospital in Melbourne.
189 - Jun 2012 - Christendom: Hungary's new constitution a rebuke to secular Europe, Edward Pentin
Christianity The Constitution states that it recognises the role of Christianity in preserving nationhood; it requires that marriage only be between a man and a woman; it assigns parents rather than the State primary responsibility for protecting the rights of the child; and it holds that the family and the nation constitute the principal framework of our coexistence.
190 - Jun 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Cardinal Pell: Same-sex marriage Senate Inquiry The Australian Senate is holding an inquiry into the subject of same-sex marriage following a bill proposed by the Greens Party.
191 - Jun 2012 - Secularism: Same-sex 'marriage' is an attack on parents' rights and religious freedom, Patrick Byrne
Legalising same-sex marriage is pivotal to the militant secular attack on religious freedom parents right to determine their childrens education and state-aid for church-based agencies.
192 - May 2012 - Letters: Infanticide, Richard Congram
But at this time when the push for unfettered rights of abortion euthanasia polygamous and even worse sexual relationships same-sex marriage and parenting is in crescendo mode there is cause for very grave concern.
193 - May 2012 - Letters: Tradition, Peter Hill
I have just completed an online parliamentary survey on two bills before parliament on homosexual marriage I was asked to state the reasons for my answers and I present them to you as I recorded them.
194 - May 2012 - Letters: Protecting marriage, Brian A. Coman
The Australian people have a perfect right in fact a duty to protect the institution of marriage from those who seek to damage it in their own selfish interests.
195 - May 2012 - Letters: Rights of children, Robert Bom
Good governments have strong interests in marriage between man and woman because of the children it produces and because children are entitled to have a biological mother and father.
196 - May 2012 - UK Catholic schools under fire for 'homophobia', Hilary White
It is not only a New Labour pet subject: there are plenty of Conservatives who have jumped on the bandwagon including David Cameron who has now publicly committed his party to legalising gay marriage.
197 - May 2012 - Religious Freedom: Catholics in Iraq: a struggle for survival, Archbishop Bashar Matti Warda
The ultimatum was marriage convert to Islam and to leave the house.
198 - May 2012 - The culture wars: Archbishop Chaput's call to Christians, Ben Johnson
When sexual minorities routinely use the states power and friendly mass media to break down traditional definitions of marriage and the family they are met with a confused and disengaged response.
199 - May 2012 - Obama imposes contraception document on UN, Babette Francis
The attempt on the part of the main sponsor the US of the text to not recognise the prior and primary responsibilities rights and duties of parents regarding their children is disrespectful of the nature of marriage and the family and undermines international law .
200 - May 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
Victorian Bishops speak out on same sex marriage Victorias six Catholic bishops issued a pastoral letter on 29 March setting out the true meaning of marriage and calling on parishioners to lobby federal parliamentarians in opposition to same-sex marriage.
201 - Apr 2012 - Pro-Life: Albury hosts well-attended Family Life International conference, Wanda Skowronska
He noted that the Malthusian doom continues to permeate three groups in particular - the radical population controllers the radical environmental movement and the radical feminists who reject marriage and see children as a burden.
202 - Apr 2012 - Episcopacy: Perth's new Archbishop Timothy Costelloe ready for the challenges of leadership, Michael Gilchrist
Archbishop Costelloe who is no stranger to Perth has some particularly big shoes to fill given Archbishop Hickeys outstanding leadership over an almost 20 year period notably his successful promotion of priestly vocations his creative approaches to evangelisation and his courageous public stances in defence of marriage family and human life.
203 - Mar 2012 - Books: The Spiritual Legacy of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, by Rev. Charles P. Connor, Michael Daniel
The final chapters explore Sheens thoughts on prayer the Virgin Mary marriage the Eucharist and priesthood.
204 - Mar 2012 - Letters: Defending marriage, Mark Szymczak
The side by side articles of Catholic politicians and same-sex marriage and Catholic universities and secularism is a superb juxtaposition (February AD2000).
205 - Mar 2012 - The Immaculate Conception and the development of doctrine, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
In Australia we face new challenges to decency morality the family and now even to the essential nature of marriage.
206 - Mar 2012 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News US joint letter against gay marriage Thirty-nine US religious leaders including four Catholic bishops and a wide range of other religious representatives have signed a joint letter Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together which was released on 12 January.
207 - Mar 2012 - Year of Grace: can Australian Catholicism recover its unity?, Michael Gilchrist
The extent of the problem was underlined in last months AD2000 and the report on efforts to introduce same-sex marriage with the key role of the former Dux of a Catholic secondary college in spearheading this misguided policy in the Federal Parliament.
208 - Feb 2012 - Books: THE RETURN OF MODERNISM:The Second Wave Revisited, by Dr J.N. Santamaria, David Perrin
In addition the Catholic Church throughout the world is presently being attacked on its support for marriage human life sexual ethics and traditional family structure.
209 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Human right?, Arnold Jago
Pro-homosexual activists are now claiming that same sex marriage is already a human right.
210 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Unwelcome truth, Brian Coman
It is sheer madness to think that a same sex union can suddenly become a marriage merely by changing a few words in a civil law.
211 - Feb 2012 - Letters: Same-sex 'marriage', Robert Bom
But legalising homosexual marriage is a public matter as it becomes a concern that spills into vital areas of our communities.
212 - Feb 2012 - Mission UK: Can pagan Britain recover its Christian identity?
Sr Jacinta said the biggest sacrifice for her was not the loss of her possessions or the prospect of marriage.
213 - Feb 2012 - Youth: iWitness 2011: a celebration of young adult Catholic life, Br Barry Coldrey
The vision of the New Testament and the consistent teaching of the Church confront these perversions: marriage is a one-flesh union and sex is the seal on this permanent relationship.
214 - Feb 2012 - Law: Catholic politicians and same-sex 'marriage', Michael Gilchrist
Following the December 2011 Labor National Conferences vote to recognise same sex marriage as official party policy Stephen Jones the Labor Federal Member for Throsby (NSW) indicated that he would be introducing a private members bill in the first half of 2012 to change the Marriage Amendment Act of 2004.
215 - Feb 2012 - Religious Freedom: Freedom of religion American style, Babette Francis
And the US situation will become relevant to Australia if same-sex marriage is legalised with homosexuals encouraged to pursue anti-discrimination legal actions aided by Equal Opportunity Commissioners while their hapless targets are left to fend for themselves.
216 - Dec 2011 - Youth Events: iWitness Retreat and Campion Summer Program
com; or Amy Vierboom Life Marriage and Family Centre Level 11 133 Liverpool Street Sydney 2000.
217 - Dec 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
NY Archbishops decree on same-sex marriage Clergy and church employees may not participate in the solemnisation of a civil same-sex marriage nor may the property and facilities of the Catholic Church in the Archdiocese of New York be used for such events Archbishop Timothy Dolan said in a decree dated 18 October.
218 - Nov 2011 - Books: STRAINED RELATIONS: The Challenge of Homosexuality, by Bill Muehlenberg, Dr Joe Santamaria
Bill quietly established an international reputation as an eloquent defender of the natural family based on the international instruments of the United Nations and his own research on marriage and family formation.
219 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Advocate needed, Oliver Clark
I am in urgent need of a suitable advocate for a nullity of marriage case who both understands and supports Humanae Vitae.
220 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Same sex marriage, Brian Harris
Australias religious magazine AD2000 is right when it insists that marriage is between a man and a woman and that same sex marriage can have a disastrous moral effect on the children involved therein.
221 - Nov 2011 - Letters: Immoral policies, Anthony English
campaign claims that pokie machines enable a social problem that can ruin individuals families businesses and marriages ( Sydney Morning Herald 2 October 2011).
222 - Nov 2011 - Letters: First Parents, Fr Brian Harrison OS
It declares that from the side of the first man cast into sleep Eve was formed for him unto marriage ( de latere primi hominis soporati Eva sibi in coniugium est formata) (DS 901).
223 - Nov 2011 - Pastoral visit: Benedict XVI calls his visit to Germany 'a great feast of faith'
In the pro-life struggle both Catholic and Orthodox could speak up jointly for the protection of human life from conception to natural death and also work together to promote the value of marriage and the family particularly when defending the integrity and the uniqueness of marriage between one man and one woman.
224 - Nov 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
New York Archbishop tackles President Obama In a remarkable letter to President Barack Obama in September Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York strongly criticised recent actions taken by your Administration that both escalate the threat to marriage and imperil the religious freedom of those who promote and defend marriage.
225 - Nov 2011 - Ad Limina: The Australian bishops' 2011 ad limina visit to Rome, Michael Gilchrist
The present situation more than ever calls for men of exceptional leadership qualities given the continuing erosion of the faith within the Catholic population and the damaging inroads of secularism underlined most recently by the relentless push for same-sex marriage.
226 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Invalid concept, Robert Prinzen-Wood
I liken the desire for same sex marriage to a man who stands next to a wall painting a target around an arrow already stuck in the wall.
227 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Same sex 'marriage', Richard Congram
Christians especially Catholics who think the law should not restrict marriage to one man and one woman should be careful about what they wish for.
228 - Oct 2011 - Letters: Old or young earth?, Fr Brian Harrison OS
Pope Leo XIII teaching about the revealed origin of marriage in the 1880 encyclical Arcanum declared that this is a certain truth - known to all Catholics and doubtful to no one.
229 - Sep 2011 - Youth: Catholic young adult ministry: Sydney's formula for success, Br Barry Coldrey
His input was followed by a thorough Q amp; A session on vocations with a very impressive panel: Daniel Hill and Chris Vaughan young married men represented the vocation of marriage and Fathers Michael de Stoop (Vocation Director Archdiocese of Sydney) and Robert Stewart OFM Cap the priestly vocation.
230 - Sep 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
World Youth Day and secularised Spain In August Benedict XVI visited a Spain that faces aggressive secularism and controversies concerning abortion sexual ethics and marriage.
231 - Sep 2011 - Pope appoints Archbishop Chaput to troubled Philadelphia, Michael Gilchrist
He sees Catholic politicians compromises on issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage as an outgrowth of a deeper secularisation affecting the whole Church.
232 - Sep 2011 - 2011 Fighting Fund launched, Peter Westmore
This is what lies behind the push for legalised abortion homosexual marriage and euthanasia and the effort to remove all vestiges of Christianity from public life.
233 - Aug 2011 - Letters: Christian heritage, Fr Bernard McGrath
Three of the greatest commandments of our Judeo-Christian heritage form the very bulwark of our civilisation: the sacredness of human life the purity of marriage and the right to private property.
234 - Aug 2011 - Young adult Catholic ministry: further progress, Br Barry Coldrey
com and one of the key organisers is Amy Vierboom whose address is: Life Marriage and the Family Centre Polding House Level 11 133 Liverpool Street Sydney 2000.
235 - Aug 2011 - Books: MARY: VIRGIN, MOTHER AND QUEEN: A Bible Study Guide for Catholics, Paul Simmons
He discusses the important role of Mary throughout Jesus life: from his conception to the visit to Marys cousin Elizabeth his birth his flight into Egypt his time lost in the Temple and then his public life beginning with the miracle at the marriage feast at Cana up to her presence at his Crucifixion and later at Pentecost.
236 - Aug 2011 - Events: In defence of the authentic meaning of marriage - Canberra, 16 August 2011, Babette Francis
On 16 August the Australian Family Association the Fatherhood Foundation Endeavour Forum and other pro-family groups are celebrating National Marriage Day with a breakfast at Parliament House Canberra.
237 - Aug 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Despite these setbacks however he said that Catholic ministries have the duty to faithfully embody Catholic beliefs on marriage the family social justice sexuality abortion and other important issues.
238 - Aug 2011 - The Carbon (dioxide) Tax: a religious perspective, Peter Finlayson
Moreover the UNs Green-motivated international agencies such as the UN Womens and radical feminist groups with their anti-life (abortion euthanasia same-sex marriage and the like) policies are already disrupting traditional family life.
239 - Jul 2011 - Pro-Life: Hungary's new pro-life 'Easter' Constitution, Babette Francis
Marriage In an attempt to avoid the disastrous confusion over the nature of marriage that has overtaken the West the new Constitution defines the family as being understood to be the conjugal union of a man and a woman based on their independent consent.
240 - Jun 2011 - Books: MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built, by William E. May, Br Barry Coldrey
MARRIAGE: The Rock on Which the Family is Built by William E.
241 - Jun 2011 - Letters: Greens' agenda, Peter Finlayson
abortion euthanasia same-sex marriage) already impacting especially on Western society.
242 - Jun 2011 - Events: St Thomas More: still A Man for all Seasons, Emma O'Shea
But when King Henry VIII demands that the Pope allow him to divorce his Spanish wife Catherine so that he can marry Anne Boleyn the bonds of marriage arent the only thing about to be severed.
243 - Jun 2011 - Cardinal Pell: 'liberalism has no young Catholic progeny', Cardinal George Pell
So too with priesthood and traditional Christian teaching on marriage divorce and sexuality.
244 - May 2011 - Interview: International Conference on Eucharistic Adoration in Rome, Father Florian Racine
In this divine marriage sealed in the New Covenant of the Eucharist the community gives birth to vocations for the Church.
245 - May 2011 - Culture: The decline of the Christian West, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Agenda One necessarily thinks too of the ever advancing agenda of those who want to redefine marriage and family life to include the unnatural sexual union of two persons of the same sex which is justified as tolerance of the so-called alternative forms of human sexuality as if there were a true form of human sexuality other than that intended by God our Creator and Redeemer as He has written it in our body and soul.
246 - May 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News US bishop critical of Obama marriage stance The Obama administrations refusal to defend the Defense of Marriage Act in court is an egregious violation of the separation of powers that puts the future prospects of our democracy at stake according to Bishop Salvatore Cordileone of Oakland California.
247 - May 2011 - Two million in Rome for beatification of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
In it he argued that this faculty is a God-given gift ordained towards the union of a man and woman in marriage to uplift them and provide the best environment for the love and care of children and for raising them to maturity.
248 - Apr 2011 - Books: TOWARDS A THEOLOGY OF THE ENVIRONMENT, by Paul Haffner, Barry Coldrey
Available from Freedom Publishing) While each dedicated practising Catholic would have to answer for him/herself this reviewer has the impression that traditional practising Catholics view the environmental movement and so-called creation theology as of questionable orthodoxy at best a distraction from the more important moral issues arising from the secular agenda like abortion euthanasia and gay marriage.
249 - Apr 2011 - Letters: Same-sex 'marriage', Robert Prinzen-Wood
It is a cause of concern indeed frightening to see the mass media giving great respect and air space to arguments in favour of same-sex marriage as if error has equal rights to truth.
250 - Apr 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
EWTN News Opposition to abortion gay marriage in Peru A recent poll has shown that over two-thirds of Peruvians are against abortion same-sex marriage and the legalisation of drugs.
251 - Apr 2011 - Homosexual rights trump the rest, especially Christians', Fr John Flynn LC
He co-authored a study called Gay Marriage And Homosexuality: Some Medical Comments in February 2005.
252 - Mar 2011 - Reflection: Mary's rosary: picture book of faith, hope and love, Bishop Robert Finn
Safeguard the vocation of marriage and the central place of the family in society.
253 - Mar 2011 - Letters: Gender selection, John Royal
Like abortion same sex marriage etc this issue will be divisive with the potential to cause malice which no peace-seeking person wants.
254 - Mar 2011 - Letters: New 'morality', Fr Bernard McGrath
Every society in human history has considered marriage to be between two persons of the opposite sex for the union of spouses the procreating of children and the founding of families as the very basis of human society (public and private good).
255 - Mar 2011 - What are the marks of an authentically Catholic university?, Cardinal Raymond Burke
At the Catholic university the very manner of study and research should manifest the bankruptcy of the abuse of human life and human sexuality which has come to be standard on many university campuses and the bankruptcy of the violation of the dignity of human life of the integrity of marriage and of the right order of our relationship to one another and to the world in general which is the trademark of our culture a culture of violence and death.
256 - Feb 2011 - Books: Isabel of Spain: The Catholic Queen, by Warren Carroll, Terri M. Kelleher
Thus began one of the most successful marriages in history.
257 - Feb 2011 - Letters: Leadership, Joe Lopez
For when these Catholics organise petitions after Mass to oppose State/Federal legislation that is anathema to the Christian concepts of life and marriage they are liable to be met with remarks like I really dont know if I should sign or the Church has got it wrong on this.
258 - Feb 2011 - That ubiquitous F word: don't demean the sacred, Fr Max Barrett CSsR
In the liturgy of marriage there was a time when those entering into this sacred gift of self declared: With my body I worship you.
259 - Feb 2011 - Marriage: US bishops signal a tougher stance in the culture wars, Michael Gilchrist
Kurtz of Louisville who heads the bishops subcommittee set up to strengthen traditional marriage and oppose gay marriage.
260 - Feb 2011 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishops respond to gay marriage push During the Plenary meeting of the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference held from 22 to 26 November in Sydney the bishops discussed at length issues relating to marriage and same-sex relationships and their recognition in law in response to recent moves by governments to change these laws.
261 - Feb 2011 - Book Review: Cardinal Pell and Pope Benedict XVI's interview, Cardinal George Pell
I did not know that Germany now has twice as many priests per practising Catholic as in 1960 or that the actress Raquel Welch believes that the pill has weakened marriage and family to situations of chaos.
262 - Feb 2011 - Editorial: Challenges ahead for the Church in 2011, Michael Gilchrist
Even more fundamental to the Churchs spiritual health are the cornerstones of marriage and family each under constant attack from secularist elites totally opposed to Judeo-Christian values.
263 - Dec 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
Chesterton he shows how this much quoted 20th century writer has plenty to say on topics of enduring relevance such as marriage education art politics and faith.
264 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Lay saint?, Eamonn Keane
This would highlight the fact that for the vast majority of Catholic men and women the call to holiness is lived out in the ordinary things of life: marriage family profession politics friendships recreation etc.
265 - Dec 2010 - Letters: Marriage, Arnold Jago
Prime Minister Julia Gillard says she is unwilling to consider changing Labor policy on same-sex marriage.
266 - Dec 2010 - Congress for Life: Catholic orthodoxy: key to promoting the culture of life, Cardinal Raymond Burke
Now more than ever the world needs the consistent witness to the truth expressed in the Sacred Scriptures and in Tradition the basis for a culture which respects fully the gift of human life and its origin in procreation that is in the cooperation of man and woman with God through the conjugal union and through education in the home which they have formed by marriage.
267 - Dec 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The changes he said were totally foreign to the nations cultural tradition for example when the country legalised same-sex marriage in July.
268 - Dec 2010 - Euthanasia: Australia's Christian churches unite in opposition, MIchael Gilchrist
In South Australia Bishop Gregory OKelly SJ of Port Pirie issued a pastoral letter on euthanasia expressing sadness that the first moves around our nation under our new political arrangement seem to be a promotion of death and an abuse of marriage.
269 - Nov 2010 - Homosexuality: Courage and EnCourage Chicago Conference: holiness the key, Marie Mason
It was a story of addictions hope in God rejection of religion desire for marriage and a family and gay partnerships.
270 - Nov 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency Bishops of Costa Rica on same-sex unions The Bishops Conference of Costa Rica has sent a message to the countrys lawmakers noting that it is an injustice to sacrifice the common good and the rights of the family in response to pressure from those who support making gay unions equal to marriage.
271 - Oct 2010 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
95 ISBN 978-1-58617-269-5 Real Love Mary Beth Bonacci An experienced speaker on Catholic teachings on marriage family and sexuality Mary Beth Bonacci has assembled the many questions she has been asked on these topics along with her answers offering a comprehensive catechesis on Church teachings.
272 - Oct 2010 - Celebrating National Marriage Day 2010, David Walsh
National Marriage Day is celebrated on 13 August each year to commemorate the passing of the Australian Federal Governments Marriage Amendment Bill 2004 which defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman to the exclusion of all others voluntarily entered into for life.
273 - Oct 2010 - Foundations of Faith: Archbishop Hickey: Time to stand up for Christian marriage, Archbishop Hickey
National Marriage Day is supported by a number of like-minded community groups that have joined together to support and promote the uniqueness of marriage and its benefits for husband and wife for the children of the marriage and for society itself.
274 - Oct 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Mexican Bishops and same-sex marriage After two Mexican cardinals were criticised for speaking out against the legalisation of same-sex marriage the rest of Mexicos bishops have risen to the defence of free speech.
275 - Sep 2010 - Cinema: The Waiting City - An Australian film of religious significance, M.A. Casey
Ben and Fionas marriage is one where the me-ness has completely got in the road of the us-ness.
276 - Sep 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Social benefits of religious practice Its little known to the public or to elite commentators in the national discourse notes Patrick Fagan director of the Marriage and Religion Research Institute at the Family Research Council.
277 - Aug 2010 - Reflection: Why the true meaning of marriage must be enshrined in law, Archbishop John C. Nienstedt
Nienstedt of Minneapolis-St Paul which called upon the US State of Minnesota to pass legislation protecting the meaning of marriage as between a man and a woman.
278 - Aug 2010 - Books: THE GUILLOTINE AND THE CROSS, by Warren H. Carroll, Michael Daniel
Carroll examines the evidence and offers the thesis that he may have secretly embraced Catholicism following his marriage.
279 - Aug 2010 - Liberalism: Christian churches and the 'religious left', Babette Francis
Other issues on which Catholic doctrine does not permit alternative views such as the ordination of women and homosexual marriage are also supported by the religious left which at the same time has a strong commitment to multiculturalism and diversity combating man-made climate change and expanding government services - all issues on which Catholics may legitimately have a range of opinions.
280 - Jul 2010 - Trends: The Church in 50 years: John Allen's predictions, Frank Mobbs
This is evidenced in making illegal the display of crucifixes in courts and school classrooms as also in strident denunciations of State funding of Churches and of Christian leaders by advocates of abortion homosexuality the marriage of homosexual couples.
281 - Jul 2010 - Book launch: Cardinal Pell's new book 'Test Everything' launched, Michael Gilchrist
This is especially evident in the areas of human life marriage family and sexuality.
282 - Jul 2010 - Editorial: Religious education: the challenge of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
Where once there was a settled consensus on these today to publicly oppose abortion or gay marriage is to invite strident abuse or ridicule.
283 - Jun 2010 - Books: THE KING'S ACHIEVEMENT, Robert Hugh Benson, Michael E. Daniel
His fiance Beatrice whom he met at the house of Thomas More rejects marriage with him because of his personality.
284 - Jun 2010 - American survey of young Catholics confirms Benedict's agenda, Carl Anderson
About 82% think marriage is undervalued.
285 - Jun 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Church in US: marriage building a priority The Catholic Church in the United States has defined marriage building as one of its priorities.
286 - May 2010 - Culture: The vocation of Christians in public life, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
One could cite abortion; immigration; our obligations to the poor the elderly and the disabled; questions of war and peace; our national confusion about sexual identity and human nature and the attacks on marriage and family life that flow from this confusion; the growing disconnection of our science and technology from real moral reflection; the erosion of freedom of conscience in our national health-care debates; the content and quality of the schools that form our children.
287 - May 2010 - Culture Wars: Christians uniting to take a stand: the Manhattan Declaration, Bishop Julian Porteous
In recent years we have witnessed attacks on the traditional Christian understanding of the sacredness of life and of the nature of marriage.
288 - May 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Sadly said the Pope recent years have seen a weakening of the commitment to the institution of marriage and the Christian understanding of human sexuality that for so long served as the foundation of personal and social relations in European society.
289 - Apr 2010 - Books: FROM HERMES TO BENEDICT XVI: Faith and Reason in Modern Catholic Thought, Tracey Rowland
Associate Professor Dr Tracey Rowland is the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family an Honorary Fellow of Campion College and an Adjunct Professor of the Centre for Faith Ethics and Society of the University of Notre Dame (Sydney).
290 - Apr 2010 - Letters: Family, Arnold Jago
Marriage provides a more stable family environment for children than does living with unmarried parents.
291 - Apr 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
The District of Columbia had said the charity would be ineligible to serve as a foster care provider because of the new law recognising same-sex marriage and adoption.
292 - Mar 2010 - Letters: Genuine ecumenism, Rev Fr M. Durham
It is about time that something positive was done to confront the continued attacks on the Christian faith and this is what the Manhattan Declaration does taking on those who are undermining the sanctity of human life the importance of traditional heterosexual marriage and the rights of conscience and religious liberty.
293 - Mar 2010 - Courage: A Catholic psychologist exposes 'gay' myths, Marie Mason
In conjunction with the Theology in the Pub crew led by Penny Badwal (Marriage Family and Life Office Melbourne) Marie and Alan Mason and the members of Courage and EnCourage Melbourne hosted a public talk late last year by US Catholic psychologist Dr Timothy Lock at the Cardinal Knox Centre and Campion House Kew.
294 - Mar 2010 - Netherlands: Remnants of faith in Europe's most secularised nation, Marina Corradi
And Holland has been a pioneer in gay marriage and euthanasia.
295 - Mar 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Avoid false charity with annulments says Pope Noting the large number of people in irregular marriage situations Benedict XVI cautioned members of the Churchs highest marriage tribunal to consider marriages valid until proven the contrary.
296 - Mar 2010 - Secularism: Benedict to UK bishops: resist secularist threat, Michael Gilchrist
The British situation reflects what has been occurring worldwide as strategically placed secularists use their pivotal positions in the UN the European Union and in various Western nations including the US and Australia to marginalise religious inputs to public policy on contentious moral issues such as abortion on demand and same-sex marriage.
297 - Feb 2010 - Letters: New priests for the Sydney Archdiocese, Fr Michael De Stoop
Since marriage is the norm many parents are naturally ignorant of the joys priests experience.
298 - Feb 2010 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Archbishop Coleridge: overturn ACT recognition of same-sex unions Last November Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Canberra-Goulburn called on Prime Minster Kevin Rudd to overturn the Australian Capital Territory Governments new laws recognising same-sex civil unions which he warns mimic marriage and will undermine its importance.
299 - Dec 2009 - Reflection: The sacrament of Christian marriage: a nuptial Mass homily, Fr Glen Tattersall
You want to express that love in the life-long and exclusive commitment that is marriage; in fact your desire and resolve to do this is the expression of your acceptance of a call.
300 - Dec 2009 - Letters: Lost opportunity, Maureen Federico
He seemed overawed by Christopher Hitchens an avowedly militant atheist and out of his depth trying to be all things to all men in his obscurantist answer on gay marriage.
301 - Dec 2009 - Victoria: Abortion evil: pro-life forces need to be united, John Morrissey
Her inspiring story also recounted in her autobiography Brave Little Bear: the Inspirational Story of a Teenage Mother describes her anguish at learning that she was pregnant the effect on her family the outstanding support which she received from her parents and some close friends the awkward ensuing relationship with both the schoolboy father of the baby and his family her successful juggling of motherhood with study and her eventual marriage to the most amazing man Steven Black.
302 - Dec 2009 - Marriage: A Biblical defence of marriage: Africans take the lead, Babette Francis
While Western society is being torn apart by homosexual lobbyists and their camp followers aiming to redefine marriage to include homosexual liaisons salutary voices are being heard from Africa.
303 - Dec 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
It is a swing away not only from Christian tradition but also from the point of view of the nature of marriage which is typical of all religions they said.
304 - Dec 2009 - Ut Unum Sint: Benedict XVI eases way for Anglicans wishing to 'cross the Tiber', Michael Gilchrist
Fr George Rutler an Anglican convert and one of Americas most prominent Catholic priests and commentators described Benedict XVIs move as a rebuke to the liberal agenda of some in the Anglican Communion namely a total repudiation of the ordination of women homosexual marriage and the general neglect of doctrine in Anglicanism.
305 - Nov 2009 - Reflection: The Feast of All Souls and the Communion of Saints, Fr Dennis Byrnes
Specifically the way we have participated in Sunday Mass received the Eucharist tried to remain faithful to our state of life in marriage vows or ministry tried to share our faith and seen Christ in others is the same way we shall die.
306 - Nov 2009 - Books: THE CHURCH AND THE WORLD: Essays Catholic and Contemporary, by John Haldane, Tracey Rowland
Professor Haldanes mother was a cradle Catholic while his father converted to Catholicism after his marriage.
307 - Nov 2009 - The work of Courage and EnCourage supported by Melbourne priests, Marie Mason
It is a movement which is supportive and faithful to the teaching of Christ and his Church regarding sexual activity outside of marriage whilst at the same time employing the insights of experience and spiritual theology to support homosexual people in their human need for friendship and understanding .
308 - Oct 2009 - Books: THE QUEST FOR SHAKESPEARE, by Joseph Pearce, Michael Daniel
References to him in parish baptism marriage and burial registers in Anglican parish churches cannot be taken as evidence of his Anglicanism: they were as Pearce argues necessary legal steps that were taken by Catholics of the period to ensure that children were legitimate and that bodies were buried.
309 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Christian divisions, Jack Blair
There are enough scandals and problems to focus on that affect the Church in contemporary life: sexual confusion the decline in Christian faith and morals married clergy survival of Christian marriage and family clerical discipline pro-life issues and co-operation between mainstream Christians.
310 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Marriage and divorce, Arnold Jago
Marriages increased 2.
311 - Oct 2009 - Letters: Healthy families, John Carty
The National Marriage Coalition meeting recently in Canberra inaugurated 13 August as National Marriage Day.
312 - Oct 2009 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: Cutting edge moral issues for the third millennium, Br Barry Coldrey
Sexual experience is deeply satisfying but deliberate sexual activity is restricted to men and women within marriage.
313 - Oct 2009 - Youth: RISE: restoring integrity and sexual ethics to Australia's secular culture, Br Barry Coldrey
On the second day of the RISE Conference the 50 delegates joined 470 of Australias leading family and marriage organisations politicians and womens groups to celebrate National Marriage Day at a breakfast in the Great Hall of Parliament House.
314 - Oct 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News Agency New Jersey Bishops refute same-sex marriage errors The Catholic bishops of New Jersey have distributed a letter explaining Church teaching on marriage and refuting the errors of the same-sex marriage proponents.
315 - Sep 2009 - USA: Anglicans fragmenting over homosexuality, Babette Francis
He said the Church of England must uphold the Biblical teaching that marriage is between a man and a woman.
316 - Aug 2009 - Books: BECAUSE GOD IS REAL: Sixteen Questions, One Answer, by Peter Kreeft, Br Barry Coldrey
The next fifteen chapters attack the most common issues that the typical teenager would have with the Catholic Church such as Why cant I have sex before marriage?
317 - Aug 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
And propagandising young children about a value-neutral approach to sex and telling them that theyll be safe if they use condoms is exactly how you get them to start practising sex before marriage.
318 - Jul 2009 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Brian Bibby
Of the Christian denominations the Catholic Church is the only one which recognises marriage as a sacrament.
319 - Jul 2009 - New Evangelisation: Catholics Come Home: a fresh approach to re-evangelising, Bob Denahy
They tell how the Church contains sinners and saints and how it can trace its history back in an unbroken line to the first pope appointed by Jesus Christ Peter; that it has founded more hospitals schools and universities than any other institution on the planet; that under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit it compiled the Bible; that it has always promoted the sanctity of human life at all stages of development as well as the sanctity of life-long marriage; and that in a confused and hurting world its teachings are consistent true and strong.
320 - Jul 2009 - Life Marriage Family: The secular culture's flawed view of sexuality, Bernard Toutounji
Bernard Toutounji is the Education Officer of the Life Marriage and Family Centre in the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney.
321 - Jul 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Wade and the primacy of authentic marriage we will lose in these areas.
322 - Jun 2009 - Letters: Ecumenism, Gary Crothers
The Church of England on the other hand was founded by the apostate King of England Henry VIII who began his murderous reign against Christs Church because he was denied a marriage annulment by the Vatican.
323 - Jun 2009 - Youth: Forming a new generation of pro-life leaders, Patrick Langrell
There are a range of basic human goods including life and health friendship knowledge marriage religion leisure and others which are constitutive aspects of our well-being and flourishing.
324 - Jun 2009 - Events - July: Australian Catholic Students Association: continuing spiritual impact, Br Barry Coldrey
Dr James Franklin University of NSW will speak on the topical issue of Regulating Capitalism: Economics with Social Justice and Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family will also address the gathering.
325 - Jun 2009 - Interview: American Catholics and abortion: the Church at the crossroads, Mariangela Sullivan
Like a couple whose marriage is suddenly on the rocks over a burned pot roast the troubles at issue here run much deeper than a single incident at a single moment in time.
326 - Jun 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency US Catholic apathy on same-sex marriage Writing in The Rhode Island Catholic on 23 April Bishop Thomas Tobin warned of a relentless political march towards homosexual marriage with New England leading the way.
327 - May 2009 - Staying together: Stable families: the best defence against violence
Tougher laws and more prison sentences might have their place but if we want to understand why our society has become so violent we must look at the state of marriage and family.
328 - May 2009 - Inter-faith dialogue: Jewish leader defends Pope over Bishop Williamson controversy, AD2000 Report
Rabbi Levin was in Rome holding meetings with high level Vatican officials to propose what he called a new stream of thinking for the Churchs inter-religious dialogue one based on commonly held moral teachings particularly on the right- to-life and the sanctity of natural marriage.
329 - May 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
The Church as moral force has the imperative duty to remind Christians that all disordered sexual practice outside of marriage is dangerous and favours the spread of AIDS.
330 - Apr 2009 - Books: AD2000 Books for April
LeVoir This valuable analysis of Pope John Paul IIs writings on sexuality marriage and family in the modern world is once more available.
331 - Apr 2009 - Anti-life platform: Archbishop Chaput: President Obama and the challenge for US Catholics, Archbishop Charles Chaput
They gave nobody a mandate to retool American culture on the issues of marriage and the family sexuality bioethics religion in public life and abortion.
332 - Apr 2009 - Red Mass Homily: Catholics as 'bearers of light' in a secular culture, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
By keeping that flame of faith burning brightly we are saying yes to a culture of life yes to procreation to marriage and family yes to educating our children and young people in love goodness and freedom yes to justice for poor families.
333 - Apr 2009 - Editorial: Confronting the long march of secularism, Michael Gilchrist
The inexorable moves in Western countries towards removal of all legal barriers to abortion on demand as well as recognising homosexual marriage and adoption indicate the extent to which secularist ideas have penetrated key areas of opinion-shaping and policy-making.
334 - Mar 2009 - Books: Books available now from AD2000 Books
LeVoir This valuable analysis of Pope John Paul IIs writings on sexuality marriage and family in the modern world is once more available.
335 - Mar 2009 - Letters: Cure for AIDS, Ben Veitz
Its called a faithful marriage between a man and a woman committed to each other.
336 - Mar 2009 - News: The Church Around the World
The President has promised to end the Dont Ask Dont Tell rule for homosexuals in military service to end the Mexico City policy to support repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act and to sign the Freedom of Choice Act immediately if Congress approves the legislation.
337 - Feb 2009 - Fundamental flaws in Bishop Robinson's book, Andrew Kania
257) divorce and re-marriage (p.
338 - Feb 2009 - Flying into the Wind for the new evangelisation, Fr John Fowles CCS & Fr Joel Wallace CCS
The impact on marriage and family the fundamental cell of society tells the whole story.
339 - Feb 2009 - Foundations of Faith: Protestant Reformation: origins and beliefs, Frank Mobbs
Today with the focus on ecumenism and the challenge of aggressive secularism relations have improved with extensive cooperation in areas of common concern - marriage family abortion euthanasia - although fundamental doctrinal differences remain.
340 - Feb 2009 - Vibrant retreat: Young adult ministry builds on WYD: iWitness Conference in Sydney, Br Barry Coldrey
The vision of the New Testament and the consistent teaching of the Church confront this perversion: marriage is a covenant a one-flesh union and sex is the seal on this permanent relationship.
341 - Dec 2008 - Letters: Strange 'bedfellows', J. Loring
How strange then that in regard to such issues as that sex should be restricted to a man and a woman in marriage and that only men have ever been ordained to the priesthood these same and other like-minded persons tell us the Church needs to be dragged into the 21st century and change - and that 2000 years of verifiable Church tradition should apparently and rather conveniently be ignored.
342 - Dec 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
46% of current and recent students - and 50% of females - said they engaged in sex outside of marriage.
343 - Nov 2008 - Reflection: Purgatory: hope, mercy, love, Bishop Peter J. Elliott
But he commented on how St Paul envisaged a purifying way of salvation by fire (1 Corinthians 3:12-15): We personally have to pass through fire so as to become fully open to receiving God and be able to take our place at the table of the eternal marriage feast.
344 - Nov 2008 - Foundations of Faith: God's gift of sex: building a civilisation of life and love, Catherine Sheehan
As a society we are also facing increasing problems with broken families and marriages sexually transmitted diseases widespread abortion infertility low birth rates the proliferation of pornography and the sexual abuse of children.
345 - Nov 2008 - Anima Women's Network: giving 'heart' to women of faith, Anna Krohn
She is a part-time academic skills adviser at the John Paul II Institute in Marriage and Family (Melbourne) and is the co-ordinator of the Caroline Chisholm Library Melbourne.
346 - Nov 2008 - History: Cardinal Stafford on Humanae Vitae: how dissenters tore the Church apart, Cardinal Francis Stafford
My counsel to Cardinal Shehan was very real and specific: the unitive and procreative meanings of marriage cannot be separated.
347 - Oct 2008 - Reflecton: Benedict XVI: the natural family, cornerstone of world peace, Pope Benedict XVI
This point merits special reflection: everything that serves to weaken the family based on the marriage of a man and a woman everything that directly or indirectly stands in the way of its openness to the responsible acceptance of new life everything that obstructs its right to be primarily responsible for the education of its children constitutes an objective obstacle on the road to peace.
348 - Oct 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop ODonohue argues that Catholic social service agencies should refuse adoption to anyone not in a legal marriage.
349 - Oct 2008 - Response: Archbishop Bathersby's concerns over rebel Brisbane parish, Michael Gilchrist
Ad hoc decisions have been made by St Marys about liturgy certainly with the sacraments of Baptism Confirmation and Marriage and especially the Sacrament of Eucharist.
350 - Sep 2008 - Books: THE WISDOM OF NAZARETH: Stories of Catholic Family Life, Siobhan Reeves
Over 30 stories make up this collection initiated by the Centre for Marriage and Family at the Maryvale Institute taken from the former Catholic publication Nazareth Journal.
351 - Sep 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
htm Catholic News Agency Archbishop of Canterbury in gay relations controversy According to a report in the London Times (7 August 2008) the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams considers that gay sexual relationships can reflect the love of God in a way that is comparable to marriage.
352 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: Faith: alive and well! - A pilgrim's progress, Catherine Sheehan
Live music was played and there were several performances throughout the week of Pope John Paul IIs play The Jewellers Shop which explores love between men and women and the vocation of marriage.
353 - Sep 2008 - WYD08: World Youth Day 2008: what the media missed, Deborah Baker
Christopher explained the union between man and woman in marriage as symbolic of the union between Christ the bridegroom and the Church his bride.
354 - Aug 2008 - Benedict XVI reaffirms Humanae Vitae on its 40th anniversary, Pope Benedict XVI
The Magisterium of the Church cannot be exonerated from reflecting in an ever new and deeper way on the fundamental principles that concern marriage and procreation.
355 - Jul 2008 - Letters: Culture of life, Fr Bernard McGrath
They regard unnatural sex gay rights perverted styles of marriage parenthood and families as valid choices.
356 - Jul 2008 - Religious faith and the power of music and song, Andrw Kania
Perhaps this is the underlying logic behind St Augustines famous teaching in Sermon 336: To sing once is to pray twice that is when music is added to the spoken word of praise for God a marriage exists between two sublime spouses between prose or poetry and the secret meaning locked within a melody.
357 - Jun 2008 - Letters: FEMINISM V. MANKIND: Selected Essays, Catherine Sheehan
Therefore she envisaged the emancipation of women through their adoption of male characteristics values and pursuits with traditional womens values of marriage family and home life being denigrated.
358 - Jun 2008 - Books: RATZINGER'S FAITH: The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI, by Tracey Rowland, Michael E. Daniel
Caricature In her second book Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul Institute for Marriage and the Family Melbourne clearly demonstrates that the caricature/myth presented above is precisely that: a facile and egregious caricature/myth that fails to take into account the complexity of Ratzingers thought and key trends that have emerged within his writings spanning almost five decades.
359 - Jun 2008 - Christianity 'lite' with all the hard parts unmentioned: a spiritual dead-end, Alan Roebuck
Public senses there is something wrong with liberalism it is mostly the specific policies of liberalism he opposes: same-sex marriage for example.
360 - May 2008 - FOUNDATIONS OF FAITH: What are the basics of Catholic belief and practice?, Lucy Tucker
Apologetics is the true marriage of faith and reason.
361 - May 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
Wasinger cited McCains pro-life stand and his position against homosexual marriage as reasons for his appeal to Catholics.
362 - Apr 2008 - Legal Year homily: Truth and the law: legal should also mean moral, Bishop Peter Elliott
Bishop Elliott is an Auxiliary Bishop of Melbourne and Director of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
363 - Apr 2008 - Church law: Conciliar decrees: what authority do they have?, Frank Mobbs
Marriage One decree had important effects for laity.
364 - Apr 2008 - Progress report: AD2000's worldwide outreach via the Internet, Francis Young
Perennial top ten searches include Oscar Romero Hound of Heaven priesthood vocations marriage and various bioethical issues including euthanasia and embryonic stem cells.
365 - Apr 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
The bishop continued: We are hearing from some Christian leaders that marriage between a woman and a man is not the only possible option for the creation of a Christian family that there can be other types of couples and that the Church should be inclusive by recognising such lifestyles and grant them a solemn blessing.
366 - Mar 2008 - Letters: Homosexual 'marriage', Arnold Jago
The new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during the election campaign said he opposed homosexual marriage.
367 - Mar 2008 - News: The Church Around the World
In his homily at the Mass for the opening of the legal year in St Patricks Cathedral on 29 January Archbishop Denis Hart singled out Victorian Government proposals to give legal recognition to couples in a relationship who are not married including providing marriage-like legitimacy to same sex intimacy.
368 - Feb 2008 - Books: WHEN MIGHT BECOMES HUMAN RIGHT:Essays on Democracy and the Crisis of Rationality, Tim Cannon
Gay marriage legalised abortion euthanasia unbridled consumerism free-market sexuality and other such agenda are constantly being pushed.
369 - Dec 2007 - Letters: Homosexual 'marriage', Arnold Jago
Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd opposes homosexual marriage and homosexual lobby groups are outraged.
370 - Nov 2007 - Books: ONE MAN, ONE WOMAN by Dale O'Leary, Bill Muehlenberg
ONE MAN ONE WOMAN: A Catholics Guide to Defending Marriage by Dale OLeary (Sophia Institute Press 2007 309pp $40.
371 - Nov 2007 - Books: Catholicism and Fundamentalism by Karl Keating: essential reading in apologetics, Valerie Renkema
I found there was an emphasis on marriage and family life the sanctity of human life and works of charity all of which are essential along with a personal commitment to Jesus Christ in the Eucharist.
372 - Nov 2007 - News: The Church Around The World
Zenit News Agency Maryland court upholds traditional marriage On 18 September the state appeals court of Maryland ruled in a 4-3 decision that marriage in the state can only be between a man and a woman.
373 - Oct 2007 - Reflection: Archbishop Hickey on the Christian concept of marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
The vision of Jesus of marriage and family life restored was a critique of the paganism of his time and the redemption of marriage as transmitted by Judaism.
374 - Oct 2007 - More of the same: Retired Sydney bishop calls for a radical overhaul of the Catholic faith, Michael Gilchrist
His general love your neighbour approach to sexual morality would allow for all manner of loving sexual expressions outside of marriage including active homosexual relations particularly as the Scriptures in the Bishops view are an unreliable guide: We have already seen that Paul and other writers of the Second New Testament outside the gospels failed to maintain the radicalism of Jesus on both purity and property laws.
375 - Oct 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
In June Archbishop Elden Curtiss of Omaha officially disassociated the archdiocese from the universitys Center for Marriage and Family after two of its researchers published an article in US Catholic magazine encouraging couples to have sex and children before marriage as long as they were engaged.
376 - Oct 2007 - Catholic Life: Sydney's Pastoral Plan ready for implementation in 2008, Michael Gilchrist
Marriage and family Here the nurturing and strengthening of marriage and family is a key priority if the faith is to be revived in parishes.
377 - Aug 2007 - Letters: Study leave, Eamonn Keane
When the Supreme Court of Massachusetts sanctioned same-sex marriage in 2004 Professor McDargh was one of the first to take advantage of the change in the law by marrying his gay partner Tim Dunn.
378 - Aug 2007 - Letters: 'Staunch' Catholics?, Frank Bellet
Recently a Fiona Barton described as a Washington correspondent wrote an article on the marriage annulment of Joe and Sheila Kennedy and the subsequent overruling by the Vatican which caught my eye.
379 - Aug 2007 - Catholics and the pornography epidemic, Bishop Robert Finn
In marriage a man and a woman are invited to establish a complete exclusive and life-long union of two individuals as one.
380 - Aug 2007 - World Congress of Families: grass roots ecumenism at work, Babette Francis
He was a distinguished moral theologian specialising in the theology of marriage and family.
381 - Jul 2007 - Reflection: Bishop Robert Finn on what it means to be a Catholic priest, Bishop Robert Finn
Defend the integrity of marriage and the family which as the Church teaches are at the core of our society.
382 - Jul 2007 - Pastoral Plan: Cardinal Pell's blueprint for the future in the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
The Draft Pastoral Plan sets out eight priorities: Evangelisation and Spiritual Renewal; Clergy and Religious Renewal; Parish Renewal; Marriage and Family Life; Pastoral Care Outreach and Social Welfare; Ministry to Young People; Catholic Education and World Youth Day.
383 - Jun 2007 - Sigrid Undset: Revived interest in a remarkable Norwegian Catholic novelist, Michael Daniel
Although the marriage was to break down in 1919 Sigrids experience of married life and the First World War profoundly influenced her spiritual journey.
384 - Jun 2007 - Obituary: A tribute to natural family planning pioneer, Dr John Billings, RIP, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
Anticipating and then responding to the courageous and prophetic encyclical of Pope Paul VI Humanae Vitae they have helped many thousands to love one another by maintaining the dynamic unity of the two dimensions of marriage - the gift of life and the gift of love.
385 - May 2007 - Letters: Marital fidelity, Br Con Moloney
I have been faithful to this pledge since the day we were first united by the bonds of marriage and I intend to be faithful to it as long as we both live.
386 - May 2007 - Culture survey shows moral divisions in the US
On the same-sex marriage issue an overall 61 percent of Americans oppose legalising it with 88 percent of Orthodox 59 percent of Independents and only 20 percent of Progressives favouring keeping marriage for man-woman couples.
387 - May 2007 - Catechesis: Sydney RCIA conference in June on forming new adult Catholics, Joanne Zwaans
Bill Keimig who is currently the Director of Religious Education at St Marys Parish in Clinton Maryland and also serves as a catechist trainer for the Archdiocese of Washington DC and a teacher in the Archdiocesan marriage preparation program.
388 - May 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The doctrinal committee chaired by Bishop William Lori of Bridgeport Connecticut addressed two pamphlets circulated last year by Maguire covering the issues of contraception abortion and same-sex marriage.
389 - May 2007 - Documents: Benedict XVI's new document on the Eucharist - Sacramentum Caritatis, Michael Gilchrist
The indissolubility of marriage is likewise reaffirmed.
390 - Apr 2007 - Books: The Way of Love: Reflections on Deus Caritas Est, Livio Melina and Carl Anderson, Tim Cannon
It is in response to this important document that the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family has published The Way of Love: Reflections on Pope Benedict XVIs Encyclical Deus Caritas Est.
391 - Apr 2007 - Vocations: New survey of successful US dioceses: lessons for Australia, Michael Gilchrist
Prominence tends to be given to the sanctity of marriage and pro-life issues as well as other topics related to the Churchs doctrinal teachings.
392 - Apr 2007 - Catholicism and secularism in Britain: a test of strength on same-sex adoption, Joanna Bogle
At present all that the Catholic agencies are seeking is the right to send children to families where the Catholic understanding of marriage and family (i.
393 - Apr 2007 - 'Equal opportunity' legislation threatens Christian teachings, Babette Francis
But although we pointed out there could be long-term implications for marriage and abortion laws we received little support from church leaders.
394 - Mar 2007 - Books: SEEKING THE ABSOLUTE: The Founders of Christian Monasticism, Michael E. Daniel
Available from Freedom Publishing) Reviewed by Michael Daniel If any institution stands in stark contrast to contemporary material culture it would have to be that of monasticism: too many people in the modern world simply cannot conceptualise how any individuals would forego marriage a family and a career to dedicate themselves entirely to God through the monastic vocation.
395 - Mar 2007 - Books: LISTEN MY SON: St Benedict for Fathers, by Dwight Longenecker, Michael E. Daniel
We are now into the second generation in which a significant number of children are being raised by their mothers in single parent families (800000 in Britain alone) with many young fathers lacking a role model as a frame of reference particularly when seeking to balance the demands of marriage parenting and work.
396 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Leadership needed, Anne Lastman
We will continue to have abortion in holocaust proportions marriage breakdown at an alarming rate de facto relationships replacing marriage a drug culture unabated abandonment of children and a street culture until we take seriously the words of Humanae Vitae Donum Vitae Evangelium Vitae Casti Conubii and Veritatis Splendor.
397 - Mar 2007 - Letters: Suitable wedding attire, Tom and Barbara Phillip
When people are participants in religious ceremonies the present trend to skimpy outfits is a sad aberration from the standards of modesty which ought to be synonymous with anyone professing to be Catholic and presenting themselves for the Sacrament of Marriage within the Catholic Church.
398 - Mar 2007 - Catholic religion courses and the challenge of relativism, Audrey English
Its impact is seen in the statistics for Generation Y in relation for instance to church attendance or to attitudes about moral issues such as abortion cohabitation outside marriage etc.
399 - Mar 2007 - Formation: Continuing growth of Sydney's Catholic Adult Education Centre, AD2000 Report
These have included one on the Morning-After Pill and one on marriage at the time of the parliamentary debate on the introduction of same-sex marriage.
400 - Mar 2007 - Sandhurst: Goddess worship at Victorian education conference?, Michael Gilchrist
More deserving of attention is the widespread moral pollution - abortion cloning gay marriage - on which the Church has much to say and about which most Catholics including teachers and parents are ignorant or misinformed.
401 - Mar 2007 - News: The Church Around the World
The media industry needed to foster the education of the young in the ways of beauty truth and goodness by promoting fundamental human dignity the true value of marriage and family life and the positive achievements and goals of humanity.
402 - Feb 2007 - Reflection: Why the Church must continue to uphold priestly celibacy, Fr Pat Stratford
First the sharp decline in priestly vocations has coincided with a decline in the numbers of marriages and a rise in the levels of divorce cohabitation and single motherhood.
403 - Feb 2007 - Letters: Root Cause, Marie Kennedy
Why also are the genuine Catholic organisations which uphold the fullness of truth on marriage so little known?
404 - Dec 2006 - Books: New Titles from AD Books
95 Good News About Sex and Marriage Christopher West Christopher West makes the case against all challengers for the Catholic understanding of marriage and sexuality.
405 - Dec 2006 - Modest dress: Suitable attire for Mass: the moral dimension, Bishop John W. Yanta
Part of the essence of that teaching is a wholesome orthodox first hand appreciation of Gods plan for our sexuality - its sacredness its fulfilment in marriage its place in family Church and world.
406 - Dec 2006 - Benedict XVI challenges 'de-Christianisation' of society, Michael Gilchrist
In this context he referred to the crisis of marriage and the family the increase in divorce and abortions and unions between people of the same sex all of which he said are evident signs of de-Christianisation.
407 - Nov 2006 - Reflection: Catholic schools must proclaim the total love of Christ, Fr Sebastian Camilleri OFM
We live in an age of relativism when respect for life the true meaning of marriage and the evils of materialism and sexual gratification are twisted and glorified not only in the media but even among the so-called professed believers.
408 - Nov 2006 - Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au
The novel shows how in a culture of sexual permissiveness young people can still live out their Catholic faith in relationships and marriage.
409 - Nov 2006 - Books: St John Bosco, St Dominic and the Rosary, St Thérèe of Lisieux, Siobhan B. Reeves
As a young man his adventures turn from offering himself as a ransom to the Moors to a kings cavalcade with an offer of marriage to a princess!
410 - Nov 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
lsquo;When people claim theyre Catholic but do nothing in the public square to advance the Christian understanding of each human persons dignity theyre deceiving themselves and other people - but theyre not fooling Godrsquo; the Archbishop said naming areas of concern to Catholics such as embryonic stem-cell research abortion assisted suicide marriage immigration poverty and the disabled.
411 - Nov 2006 - Living the Faith: What distinguishes a practising Catholic?, Bishop Luc Matthys
Catholics exchange marriage vows in the Church before a priest and two witnesses.
412 - Nov 2006 - Education: The Spirit of Generation Y: the challenge for Catholic schools, Cardinal George Pell
How can the truths about life marriage family and social justice be defended?
413 - Oct 2006 - Reflection: Philosophy and theology: avoiding the pitfall of human pride, Fr John O'Neill
Philosophy and Theology married long ago and together they make a very fruitful marriage begetting a whole host of very happy discoveries.
414 - Oct 2006 - Books: ARMS OF LOVE by Carmen Marcoux, Jacinta Cummins
Courtship on the other hand makes chastity paramount and places physical intimacy in its rightful context: marriage.
415 - Oct 2006 - University: Campion College: a pioneer in Australian higher education, Stephen McInerny
Addressing his students and readers Senior confronted them with the following: In your education past and future in the pursuit of happiness in marriage friendship in vocations recreation politics and just plain jobs if you can find them - in the long run you will have to ask what the whole thing is: What are all those activities and commitments part of?
416 - Oct 2006 - Benedict XVI interviewed by German journalists
Anyone who was listening carefully as we tried to do at Vatican Radio noticed how you never mentioned the words homosexual marriage you never spoke about abortion or about contraception.
417 - Oct 2006 - Spanish bishops attack false theologies, AD2000 Report
These groups whose common characteristic is that of dissent have expressed themselves in public statements in favour of communal absolution and womens ordination and have misrepresented the true meaning of marriage by proposing and practising the blessing of unions between homosexual persons.
418 - Oct 2006 - News: The Church Around The World
Catholic World News Canadas same-sex marriage to be reviewed The Canadian Parliament made a terrible mistake when it redefined marriage last year said Bishop Richard Smith of Pembroke Ontario to the 800 women present at the annual national convention of the Catholic Womens League in Halifax Nova Scotia on 15 August.
419 - Sep 2006 - Family in Society: Asian and Australian families face similar challenges, Leslie Sammut
My wife Carmen and I were invited to represent Australia at the 7th Asian Continental Christian Family Conference held at Marriage Encounter House in Singapore from 16-18 June.
420 - Sep 2006 - History: The Counter Reformation and the Jesuits, John Morrissey
Corrupt monasteries a shortage of priests pastors and people already with Protestant sympathies (viz modified liturgies compromises in clerical marriage and use of the vernacular) underlined the crisis for the Church.
421 - Sep 2006 - Conscience: AD2000 interviews Cardinal Pell, Cardinal George Pell
There are other Catholics who invoke conscience to claim that abortion is sometimes permissible that homosexual marriage and euthanasia are Christian options and that the divorced and remarried without an annulment can regularly receive Communion.
422 - Aug 2006 - Letters: Tasmania, Justin Kearney
My daughter attended a religion class recently where the discussion centred around gay marriage.
423 - Aug 2006 - Does Wollongong's Catholic Education Office endorse dissent?, AD2000 Report
In his book Visioning A Future Church published in 2000 Treston offers the following dissenting opinions: Those who have studied the story of the church and her teachings on sexuality and marriage know that the church must seriously rethink its teachings (p.
424 - Aug 2006 - Teen STAR: Sex education for young adults: a pro-life approach, Jacinta Cummins
On 30 June 2006 the Australian Family Association was privileged to host Dr Hanna Klaus who was visiting from Washington DC and teaching her course at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
425 - Aug 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News Marriage and abortion: US bishops campaign The Colorado Catholic Conference launched a statewide campaign in June to try to get two key measures on Colorados November ballot: the protection of marriage as the union of one man and one woman and the prohibition of late-term abortions.
426 - Jul 2006 - Reflection: US bishop: making saints should be the goal of Catholic schools, Bishop Robert Finn
We live in an age of relativism where respect for life the true meaning of marriage and the evils of materialism and sexual gratification are twisted and glorified not only in the media but even among so-called professed believers.
427 - Jul 2006 - Books: Good News About Sex and Marriage, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX AND MARRIAGE By Christopher West (Freedom Publishing 2003 167pp $18.
428 - Jul 2006 - Books: Theology of the Body for Beginners, by Christopher West, Jacinta Cummins
If a priest or any other man were to enter marriage with deep-seated sexual disorders he would be condemning his wife to a life of sexual objectification.
429 - Jul 2006 - Letters: Contraception, Richard Congram
There has been widespread speculation recently about the likelihood of Church doctrine being modified to allow the use of condoms within the context of marriage where one spouse has HIV/AIDS.
430 - Jul 2006 - New Vatican document emphasises centrality of marriage and family, AD2000 Report
The central role of marriage and family has been a constant theme in Benedict XVIs speeches in recent months.
431 - Jul 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Meanwhile the Bishops Conference of Italy joined the Spanish and Polish bishops in condemning a resolution of the EU Parliament on homophobia in Europe which included a call for recognition of same-sex marriage.
432 - Jun 2006 - Books: Dear Son, Dear Daughter: God's Plan for Catholic Marriage and the Family, Michael Gilchrist
DEAR SON DEAR DAUGHTER: Gods Plan for Catholic Marriage and the Family by Carol Phillips (St Philomena Catechetics Perth 2006 16pp $4.
433 - Jun 2006 - The John Paul II Institute after five years, AD2000 Report
The Institute offers Graduate Diplomas in marriage and family studies and bioethics Masters degrees in the same fields as well as the PhD degree.
434 - May 2006 - Books: Stimulating reading from AD Books
95 Sex and the Marriage Covenant John F.
435 - May 2006 - Catholicism-lite's Church of convenience, Paul A. Wagner
Even though she has never sought an annulment it seems her dismissiveness of the Church runs deeper than her resentment of Church policies regarding marriage divorce Communion and annulment.
436 - May 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
For Archbishop Garcrsquo;a-Gasco Spanish legislation in the matter of marriage and the family is every day more deceitful sectarian and radical.
437 - Apr 2006 - Books: Swear To God: The Promise and Powers of the Sacraments, by Scott Hahn, Jacinta Cummins
Regarding the sacrament of marriage Hahn recalls his early married years when he and his wife ceased using contraception and allowed their love for each other to be demonstrated in the selfless act of accepting children whenever God saw fit to bestow them.
438 - Apr 2006 - The Domestic Church: The Christian Family Movement: re-evangelising through families, Leslie Sammut
During his 18 years of secondary teaching in Australia he gained qualifications in theology and marriage counselling.
439 - Apr 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
Finally the CRC asks the Catholic Church to be open even to homosexual marriage: We hope that our Bishops create opportunities for discussion and discernment; engaging in the questions and problematic situations raised in todays society - the place of women in the Church marriage between persons of the same sex assisted suicide.
440 - Mar 2006 - Books: 'The Case For Marriage' by Linda J. Waite and Maggie Gallagher, Kerrie Allen
THE CASE FOR MARRIAGE by Linda J.
441 - Mar 2006 - Media: Archbishop Hickey presents the Christian message on TV, Daniel Tobin
His topics have included Violence Honesty Marriage and Family and Justice.
442 - Mar 2006 - Vocations: Dominican Sisters: religious vocations continue to rise in Nashville, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
443 - Mar 2006 - Archbishop Hickey: how to address the crisis of faith, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Gospel guidance It must be acknowledged that the implementation of these human values without the guidance of the Gospel can lead to totally unacceptable consequences like the right to abortion the conditional rights of unborn children (especially those diagnosed with a disability) the acceptance of a variety of actively sexual lifestyles outside and within marriage and the unqualified right to choose.
444 - Mar 2006 - News: The Church Around the World
He said that such trends manifested themselves in the progressive ethical impoverishment of civil laws and political agendas resulting in the legalisation of abortion euthanasia and drug use as well as contempt for the indissolubility of marriage and the traditional family.
445 - Feb 2006 - Letters: Clerical Celibacy (letter), Fr Adrian Head
From the beginnings of the Church and throughout the Greco-Latin world a single rule prevailed: priests were celibate; or else if they had married before ordination they and their wives promised to live together thereafter without the use of the marriage.
446 - Feb 2006 - Catechesis: Latest research on Catholic school leavers, Michael Gilchrist
Students are rejecting most of the doctrinal teachings of the Catholic Church for example Sunday Mass attendance contraception and divorce and re-marriage.
447 - Dec 2005 - Books: Good News About Sex And Marriage, by Christopher West, Kerrie Allen
GOOD NEWS ABOUT SEX AND MARRIAGE: Answers to your honest questions about Catholic Teaching by Christopher West (Freedom Publishing 2003 192pp $18.
448 - Dec 2005 - Letters: Priestly celibacy, Philip Holberton
Fr Doyle maintains there was a rule in the early Church that as soon as married men were ordained they were expected to renounce the use of their marriage and to live as brother and sister with their wives.
449 - Dec 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
He added that from a doctrinal perspective the reason for the Church policy is evident - the very Word of God regarding the indissolubility of marriage is sufficient - and the Catechism is equally clear.
450 - Dec 2005 - Synod on the Eucharist sets agenda for Benedict's pontificate, Michael Gilchrist
If such Catholics cannot obtain an annulment and objective conditions exist why their new marriage cannot be dissolved they are to be encouraged to live their new marriage according to the exigencies of the law of God transforming it into a loyal and trustworthy friend-ship.
451 - Nov 2005 - Thomas More Centre: Fifty years from Shadowlands: Childhood memories of the world of C. S. Lewis, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
She had passed through an unhappy marriage that ended in divorce.
452 - Nov 2005 - Sister Miriam Duggan: the Church's response to AIDS, Anh Nguyen
He caused much controversy when he said the best ways to stop the spread of AIDS are abstinence and faithfulness in marriage.
453 - Nov 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Spains same-sex marriage law challenged Spains political opposition the Popular Party lodged a legal appeal in September challenging the countrys new law allowing same-sex marriage.
454 - Nov 2005 - National Press Club: Cardinal George Pell on the dictatorship of relativism, Cardinal George Pell
Relativism is powerful in Western life evidenced in many areas from the decline in the study of history and English literature through to the triumph of subjective values and conscience over moral truth and the downgrading of heterosexual marriage.
455 - Oct 2005 - Letters: Contraception, Anne Lastman
The emergence of the pill followed by rejection of Humane Vitae opened the door for the deep wounding of human intimacy the slow erosion of values marriage breakdown easy divorce abortion and the introduction of all types of blended relationships.
456 - Oct 2005 - Priesthood: Christ's call to priestly celibacy, Fr Thaddeus Doyle
It is that while married men were ordained in the early Church as soon as they were ordained they were expected to renounce the use of their marriage and to live as brother and sister with their wives.
457 - Oct 2005 - Society: The latest marriage statistics: implications, Zenit News Agency
The following statistics on marriage family and divorce refer to the United States and Sweden but to some extent they reflect trends in Australia and the Western world generally and are therefore cause for concern with their negative implications for the churches as well as for the wider society.
458 - Oct 2005 - Editorial: Health of Church and health of family connect, Michael Gilchrist
Radical economic rationalist policies - accompanied by a downsized workforce - have seen a reduction in the number of full-time male breadwinners who can realistically contemplate marriage.
459 - Sep 2005 - Can reverence at Mass make a comeback?, Michael Ryan
We moved to the Latrobe Valley early in our marriage and remained there until 1983.
460 - Sep 2005 - Canadian Bishops' cave-in to 'renegade Catholicism' under fire
The recent passage of the same-sex marriage law in Canada with the votes of a majority of Catholic politicians and at the behest of a Catholic Prime Minister has focussed attention in Canada on renegade Catholicism rampant in politics and seemingly unchecked by the majority of Canadas bishops.
461 - Sep 2005 - News: The Chuch Around the World
Catholic News Agency NFP classes for marriage preparation in US diocese On 19 July Bishop Samuel J.
462 - Sep 2005 - Editorial: Support the 2005 Fighting Fund!, Peter Westmore
As Benedict XVI has pointed out repeatedly the future of Western civilisation is threatened by the forces of individualism materialism and secularism which are dissolving the bonds that hold society together particularly marriage and the family undermining legitimate authority in both Church and state and causing the de-Christianisation of society.
463 - Aug 2005 - Letters: An Islamic Holland? (letter), Henk Verhoeven
The Dutch Government was the worlds first to enact full legal marriage between couples of the same sex.
464 - Aug 2005 - Feminist translation: Inclusive language and the Trinity: the latest from Brisbane, Michael Apthorp
This is what happened to St Paul on marriage Ephesians 5:21-32 which was rewritten to make the demands on husbands and wives identical.
465 - Aug 2005 - International poll underlines growing secularist challenge, Michael Gilchrist
In light of these statistics it is not surprising that such secularist goals as same-sex marriage have been carried in nominally Catholic countries like Spain whereas there has been more resistance in the United States where the hold of religion remains far stronger than in Western Europe.
466 - Aug 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Worlds bishops support Spanish pro-family rally The Vatican agency Fides united the voices of bishops worldwide in support of the protest in Madrid last June against legislation - subsequently ratified by the Spanish Parliament - to recognise homosexual marriage in Spain.
467 - Aug 2005 - What the Church can teach the secular world, Archbishp Barry Hickey
With respect for the heroic efforts of many sole parents and for the pain of many unjustly forced out of their own families it remains a fact that the number of children forced to live apart from one or other parent because of broken marriages is appalling.
468 - Jul 2005 - Year of Eucharist: The Eucharist: heart of our faith, Cardinal George Pell
Marriage imagery Because the Mass is such an important event we need to work to participate properly.
469 - Jul 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The companionship joy happiness and peace which Christian marriage and fidelity provide and the safeguard which chastity gives must be continuously presented to the faithful particularly the young.
470 - Jul 2005 - Editorial: Can Catholic "salt" flavour the secular culture?, Michael Gilchrist
Meanwhile recent history in Australia has shown that the decent majority are open to well-reasoned arguments on issues such as marriage euthanasia and abortion.
471 - Jun 2005 - Books: John Paul the Great, edited by William Oddie, John R. Barich
She stresses that the new feminism must lie in the exegesis of the marriage covenant as one of mutual subjection out against the simple subjection of wife to husband.
472 - Jun 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Martnez said that the equivalence to marriage that Spain had conferred to gay unions was a consequence of the ruling relativism which affirmed that absolute and universal values do not exist meaning that each one is free to do his or her will without ever considering the involvement of a third party as with children adopted by same-sex couples.
473 - May 2005 - Books: Remembering Pope John Paul II
00 The Jewelers Shop Karol Wojtyla This is the only Vatican-approved English translation of Pope John Paul IIs most famous play written in the 1940s on the theme of relationships and love and marriage.
474 - May 2005 - Letters: Sex before marriage, Dr Arnold Jago
Just living together seems not to guarantee that a couple is ready for marriage.
475 - May 2005 - Letters: Appeal to the young, Justin Lynch
He challenged us to live chastity before marriage and not to accept contraception in marriage.
476 - May 2005 - St Patrick's Church, Soho Square, a spiritual oasis in London, Tess Livingstone
Catechism Students complete a detailed paragraph by paragraph examination of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and spend time on vocational discernment covering religious life priesthood celibacy and chastity marriage lay movements singleness sexuality and community life.
477 - May 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
The issues included marriage and the family criminal justice education the global common good and immigration.
478 - May 2005 - 'Santo Subito': the impact of John Paul II, Peter Westmore
He reaffirmed the Churchs traditional teachings on the indissolubility of marriage and on sex within marriage; he opposed abortion euthanasia and human embryo experimentation reconciled Catholicism with democracy repudiated Marxist-influenced liberation theology and met the intellectual challenge of the Enlightenment by arguing that faith and reason were fully compatible.
479 - Apr 2005 - Letters: Practice of faith, Br Con Moloney CFC
Do you admire the Christian ideal of life-long marriage?
480 - Apr 2005 - Adore 05: Sydney's successful Eucharistic Youth Congress, Nicole Osmak
On the final day about 40 young people came forward after Fr Arellanos talk on vocations and the need to be open to these before considering marriage.
481 - Apr 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
Questioned towards the end of his life by a journalist: Wouldnt it be wonderful if all of our priests were able to marry like you he said: No it wouldnt for marriage brings a tension into the life of a priest which many people dont realise.
482 - Mar 2005 - Letters: Priestly celibacy (letter), Barbara Chigwidden
Priesthood is a full-time and challenging vocation just as marriage is also a demanding vocation especially in the stress and strain of modern life.
483 - Mar 2005 - Dissent: Notes from a theology unit at Australian Catholic University
Marriage is out of fashion: It has never survived the Industrial Revolution and wont.
484 - Mar 2005 - Moral divisions among the Christian Churches threaten ecumenism, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Today the issues are moral - marriage and divorce homosexual unions human sexuality living together before marriage contraception abortion cloning the humanity of embryos and their use in research prenatal screening genetic manipulation and other emerging issues.
485 - Mar 2005 - Cinema: Hollywood's Kinsey whitewash, Bill Muehlenberg
And today we see the result of this social and sexual revolution: broken families marriage disintegration a tsunami of pornography including child pornography an epidemic of promiscuity and sexually transmitted diseases high abortion rates a crisis in teenage pregnancies an explosion of rape and sexual assault and a culture that believes that hedonism is the highest good and self-control and restraint the greatest evil.
486 - Mar 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
US Senate gives priority to pro-marriage amendment Republican leaders in the US Senate indicated in late January their commitment to push for a constitutional amendment protecting marriage putting that issue at the top of their legislative calendar.
487 - Feb 2005 - Marriage: Why gay marriage is a self-contradiction, Peter Reynolds
Marriage since the genesis of man has been the institutional building block of society.
488 - Feb 2005 - News: The Church Around the World
CNA Thomas Groome students challenge marriage laws Both women who took a High Court action late in 2004 to force a review of Irelands marriage laws have had a long and substantial involvement in religious education.
489 - Dec 2004 - Society: American surveys show advantages of sexual abstinence education
For example women who become sexually active in their early teen years are less likely to have stable marriages in their 30s when compared with women who wait.
490 - Dec 2004 - Administration: Cardinal Pell: Church administrators must put Christ's mission first, Cardinal George Pell
All of the decisions we make about the temporal goods of the Church must be actively directed towards furthering Christs mission and to furthering the key parts of that mission which the Church has identified over time - that is such activities as regular worship supporting marriages and families spreading the Gospel educating in the faith supporting the poor and suffering etc.
491 - Dec 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
In an interview with the Denver Post the Archbishop said religion and religious issues were at the forefront throughout the year including the release of Mel Gibsons film The Passion of the Christ abortion and same-sex marriage.
492 - Dec 2004 - US and Australian election results: the cultural revolution challenged, Michael Gilchrist
In Australia this was underlined prior to the election with the passing of Federal Government legislation defending the institution of marriage.
493 - Nov 2004 - Books: MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE, by James Dobson, Bill Muehlenberg
The forces arrayed against the family comprise a moral tidal wave MARRIAGE UNDER FIRE by James Dobson (Multnomah Publishers 2004 123pp $22.
494 - Nov 2004 - Letters: Church teaching (letter), Carmel Pittari
Are not the Churchs teachings including those on marriage and sexuality good and true and solid?
495 - Nov 2004 - Education: Where secular humanism is triumphing over the Gospel, Fr John Walter
the blessing of Christian marriage regular and prayerful Sunday Mass attendance and readiness for personal involvement in the appropriate parish-based catechetical programs.
496 - Nov 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic News Agency Spains same-sex marriage legislation Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo the President of the Pontifical Council for the Family has denounced new Spanish legislation that would give full legal recognition to same-sex unions.
497 - Nov 2004 - Ad limina: The Pope calls for strong leadership from New Zealand's Bishops, Michael Gilchrist
Church teaching The Holy Father called on New Zealands bishops notably in their pastoral letters to continue to ensure that your statements clearly convey the whole of the Churchs magisterial teaching including on such areas as the sanctity and uniqueness of marriage and family.
498 - Oct 2004 - Society: Why marriage should receive greater government support, Michael Casanova
The recent confirmation in Australian law of the heterosexual meaning of marriage with the passing of the Marriage Amendment Bill 2004 through the Senate on August 13 was very welcome.
499 - Oct 2004 - University: International Movement of Catholic Students Australia, Aaron Russell
Other speakers included Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family Patrick Quirk Associate Professor Ave Maria Catholic Law School Eamonn Keane and the movements chaplin Fr Gregory Jordan SJ.
500 - Oct 2004 - News: The Church around the World
Citing papal and Vatican documents Voters Guide identifies five issues it calls non-negotiable: abortion euthanasia fetal stem cell research human cloning and homosexual marriage.
501 - Sep 2004 - Reflection: Why the priesthood is absolutely necessary, Fr John O'Neill
Despite the holiness and wonder of married love the priests love is so absorbed in Christ and all mankind that it works on a higher plane even than that of marriage.
502 - Sep 2004 - Letters: Moral relativism, Tim Coyle
President Bush complained to the Pope recently that American Catholic bishops were not supporting him in his stand against abortion and his attempts to support normal marriage.
503 - Sep 2004 - Sydney Catholic Adult Education Centre courses prove popular, Peter Holmes
Our local students have already started new courses like Sex Marriage and the Church Sharing Your Faith (without losing your friends) Introduction to Theology and Catholic Social Teaching each with the aim of learning the faith in order to put it into practice in their everyday lives.
504 - Sep 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
For this reason marriage is the first and fundamental dimension of this vocation.
505 - Sep 2004 - Editorial: 2004 Fighting Fund launched, Michael Gilchrist
The NCC has been in the forefront of defending the integrity of marriage and the family Judeo-Christian values and Australias national sovereignty in the face of the twin threats of secular individualism and globalism.
506 - Aug 2004 - Letters: Threats to family, Gordon Southern
In his ad limina address to our bishops in March the Holy Father cogently warns of the threat in Australia to families (and therefore to society) of legal and social trends and attitudes and exhorts our bishops to ensure that the values of marriage and family life are supported.
507 - Aug 2004 - Getting serious about orthodoxy: an American bishop shows how, Michael Gilchrist
Doctrinal statements These include statements on the inviolability of human life the sinfulness of contraception the evil of extra-marital sexual relationships the unacceptability of homosexual relationships the wrongness of cohabitation before marriage the significance of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist the uniqueness of the Catholic Church the legitimacy of the Holy Fathers claim to infallibility and the moral teaching authority of the Catholic Church.
508 - Aug 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Virginia bans same-sex marriage The Virginia legislature has passed a law by a veto-proof majority that bans any partnership contract or other arrangement between persons of the same sex purporting to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage.
509 - Aug 2004 - Editorial: New challenges for Catholic education, Peter Westmore
He said that Church institutions - universities schools and hospitals - must be genuinely Catholic and conform to official teaching on respect for human life marriage and family and the right ordering of public life.
510 - Jul 2004 - Letters: Gay lobby (letter), Alan A. Hoysted
Christian values are under attack everywhere - from the Gay and Lesbian lobby wanting same-sex marriages to lesbians appearing on the traditional childrens ABC program Play School.
511 - Jul 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
Bishop Hurley welcomes Government marriage legislation One of societys strongest institutions needed safeguarding The Federal Governments announcement on 27 May that it would move to protect the institution of marriage was a welcome affirmation of the special nature of marriage between a man and a woman said Bishop Eugene Hurley of Port Pirie.
512 - Jun 2004 - Books: More new titles for 2004 from AD Books
95 Marriage and the Family in the Documents of the Magisterium Ramon Garcia de Haro This volume provides a comprehensive and detailed presentation and analysis of the Churchs teaching on marriage and family which is fully faithful to the Catholic tradition.
513 - Jun 2004 - Society: Why Chesterton is needed now more than ever, Dale Ahlquist
Chesterton said the obvious effect of frivolous divorce would be frivolous marriage.
514 - Jun 2004 - Theology of the Body: Why the silence on the Church's moral teachings?, Audrey Dillon
Ideas about sex are vitally important because they are fundamental to issues like the state of marriage the role of family relations between men and women as well as the myriad of other topics that arise like contraception and pre-marital sex.
515 - Jun 2004 - Marriage: Statistics highlight the precarious state of marriage and family, AD2000 REPORT
Many defenders of traditional marriage fear that giving formal legal recognition to homosexual couples would only further weaken an institution already debilitated by several decades of anti-family tendencies.
516 - May 2004 - Books: ANGLICANS AND ORTHODOX: Unity and Subversion (1559-1725), by Judith Pinnington, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family (Melbourne).
517 - May 2004 - Books: Marriage and Family in the Biblical World, edited by Ken Campbell, Bill Muehlenberg
MARRIAGE AND FAMILY IN THE BIBLICAL WORLD edited by Ken Campbell (InterVarsity Press 2003 286pages $35.
518 - May 2004 - Australian Bishops' ad limina: strong leadership needed to confront secularism
It is the Bishops particular task to ensure that within civil society - including the media and entertainment industry sectors - the values of marriage and family life are supported and defended.
519 - May 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
CCCB General Secretary Msgr Mario Paquette warned the Senate: Participation in the current public debate on marriage has demonstrated there are individuals who believe that Catholic Church teaching on homosexual behavior is hatred.
520 - Apr 2004 - Theology: Fr Aidan Nichols to lecture on von Balthasar in Melbourne, Tracey Rowland
Fr Aidan Nichols the Prior of Blackfriars Cambridge will be a Visiting Professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne from 19-30 April 2004.
521 - Apr 2004 - News: The Church Around the World
It also recommends that children should be taught from early on that there are alternatives to marriage.
522 - Mar 2004 - Books: John Henry Newman on the pre-eminent place of the Blessed Virgin in Christianity, Leo Madigan
Accordingly marriage began to be restored to its original dignity and became a sign of the union between Christ and his bride the Church: Thus has the Blessed Virgin in bearing Our Lord taken off or lightened the peculiar disgrace which the woman inherited for seducing Adam.
523 - Mar 2004 - Virtue ethics: Challenging our contemporary culture's flawed worldview, Hayden Ramsey
He has worked on the personal staff of Archbishops Pell and Hart in Melbourne and is now Academic Research Fellow in the Archdiocese of Sydney and Professor of Philosophy at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family.
524 - Mar 2004 - World AIDS Day: A Cardinal, AIDS and the BBC, Msgr Peter J. Elliott
In Uganda emphasis shifted from condom use to promoting marital fidelity and sexual abstinence outside marriage.
525 - Mar 2004 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Boston Archbishops Red Mass address Urges legal profession to defend sacredness of life and marriage Archbishop Sean P.
526 - Mar 2004 - Red Mass Homily: Can Lawyers Be Saints?, Bishop Anthony Fisher
The law in our country today is challenged in many directions by those who would compromise its reverence for human life especially in its beginning and end; those who would equate all sorts of relationships with marriage and family life; those who would respond to perceived threats to security with suspension of rights; those who put the interests of the privileged and powerful before Gods little ones the orphan and widow the sick and poor the stranger and refugee the ones most in need of the protection of law.
527 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Higher calling, Judy O'Reilly
In challenging John Youngs excellent article on clerical celibacy (August AD2000) Kim Albertini (Letters November AD2000) takes exception to the doctrine that consecrated celibacy is superior to marriage.
528 - Feb 2004 - Letters: Celibacy book review, Fr Adrian Head
He writes that in 1878-79 a German historian - Gustave Bickell - published a thesis stating that the obligation of priestly celibacy dates from the time of the Apostles; and that when a married man was ordained he was required to remain celibate thereafter within the marriage.
529 - Dec 2003 - VOCATIONS: Melbourne's 'Hearts on Fire' vocations congress a success, Fr Paul Stuart
Workshops Also at the Exhibition Building were workshops on different vocations and topics: the priesthood religious life marriage social justice spirituality Blessed Mary MacKillop and Blessed Pier Giorgo Frasatti.
530 - Dec 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
And his teachings have helped to revive an understanding - at least among Christians - that the health of the family founded on marriage and fidelity is the best response to the culture of death and the best remedy for all major social problems.
531 - Nov 2003 - Letters: Celibacy (letter), Kim Albertini
John Youngs article on celibacy being superior to marriage beckons the thought as to why none of this is mentioned in the new Catechism of the Catholic Church.
532 - Nov 2003 - Vocations: Father James Gould and the hallmarks of successful vocations promotion, Michael Rose
The first thing that comes to mind for most people is giving up marriage and family life.
533 - Nov 2003 - Melbourne on course despite brain drain, Fr Paul Stuart
His deep concern for the pastoral support and intellectual formation of Christians on matters to do with human life sexuality and marriage saw him bring the John Paul II Institute to Melbourne.
534 - Nov 2003 - Social Justice Statements: in whose name should they be published?, Richard Egan
The Statement appears to contradict itself on how the marriages of Aborigines should have been handled by earlier bishops and the missionaries serving under them.
535 - Oct 2003 - Letters: Clerical celibacy (letter), Gerard Wilson
Those of us who have been used to defending clerical celibacy primarily on what he calls secondary reasons now know what is the biblical basis of the discipline: Celibacy chosen for the love of God is a higher state than marriage.
536 - Oct 2003 - Why Catholic teaching on marriage is 'good news' for all humanity, Eamonn Keane
The eclipse of moral consciousness is most evident in the multi-dimensional undermining of the meaning of marriage as an indissoluble union between one man and one woman that is ordered towards the generation and education of children.
537 - Oct 2003 - Youth: Thomas More Winter School in Sale Diocese has Eucharistic focus, Michael Casanova
This not only gives meaning to marriage and consecrated life but also sheds light on the love of God through the Incarnation and Eucharist.
538 - Oct 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
6-million-member Knights of Columbus has used his message in the August issue of the organisations Columbia magazine to take to task Canadian Catholic political leaders for endorsing homosexual marriage.
539 - Oct 2003 - Editorial: The role of the Catholic in public life, Peter Westmore
A recent statement by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on homosexual marriage has been widely criticised in the media.
540 - Sep 2003 - Homosexual conduct: how Gospel teaching can be distorted, Bill Muehlenberg
Jesus did on many occasions in the Gospels affirm Gods plan for sex within heterosexual marriage.
541 - Sep 2003 - Dissident US group establishing a foothold in Australian parishes, Mary-Ruth Monsour
A VOTF document on change titled Discerning the Spirit: a Guide for Renewing and Restructuring the Catholic Church sheds some light on its underlying philosophy referring as it does to the clerical culture noted for its power and secrecy ignorance of the human body and sex a mindset that degrades women and marriage and a spiritually distorted psychologically troubled view of celibacy.
542 - Sep 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Same-sex marriage rejected Vatican document sets out Church opposition The Vatican has issued a document indicating the firm opposition of the Church to legal recognition of same-sex marriage and reminding Catholic politicians of their obligation to oppose such measures.
543 - Sep 2003 - New auxiliary bishops appointed to the Sydney Archdiocese, Michael Gilchrist
For the past three years Dr Fisher has been the foundation director and a Professor of Bioethics and Moral Theology in the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family - a post-graduate pontifical institute with ten campuses around the world.
544 - Sep 2003 - Editorial: The future of the Anglican Church, Peter Westmore
The worldwide Anglican communion faces a very real prospect of disintegration as a result of growing divisions over the ordination of homosexual bishops recognition of same sex marriages and adoption of Being Human a new document by the Doctrine Commission of the Church of England which critics have said equates unmarried relationships with marriage and suggests that a good divorce is better than a bad marriage.
545 - Aug 2003 - Priests 24/7 : A video documentary, Michael Gilchrist
personal prayer homily preparation and celebrating Mass and the sacraments (marriage and baptism).
546 - Aug 2003 - Priesthood: Clerical celibacy 'for the sake of God's Kingdom': the Church's teaching, John Young
Then theres the potential scandal if a priests marriage breaks up.
547 - Aug 2003 - Catalyst for Renewal Address: The legacy of Vatican II, Archbishop George Pell
Ironically Pope Pauls affirmation of the unitive and procreative goals of marriage set the scene for Pope John Paul IIs theology of the body which speaks so powerfully to young adults today.
548 - Aug 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Catholic World News Canadian Archbishop directs his priests No same-sex weddings Ottawa Archbishop Marcel Gervais responded to inquiries from reporters in June on homosexual marriage by warning priests not to conduct same-sex weddings.
549 - Aug 2003 - Documents: Ecclesia in Europa - Pope challenges Christians to re-evangelise Europe, Michael Gilchrist
This rootlessness is evident in the diminishing number of births the decline in the number of vocations to the priesthood and religious life and the difficulty if not the outright refusal to make lifelong commitments including marriage.
550 - Jul 2003 - Reflection: The meaning of vocation for baptised Christians, Archbishop Philip Wilson
It is equally important that we are as serious about the vocation to marriage.
551 - Jul 2003 - Books: Marriage And Modernization, by Don Browning, Bill Muehlenberg
MARRIAGE AND MODERNIZATION by Don Browning (Eerdmans 2003 258pp $59.
552 - Jul 2003 - Letters: Success in WA (letter), Deidre Lyra
He expressed strong views on a committed marriage relationship in light of the escalating divorce rate in our society.
553 - Jun 2003 - Books: Family in the Bible, edited by Richard H. Hess and M. Danial Carroll, Bill Muehlenberg
Both volumes give a helpful introduction to the themes of marriage and family as found in the Scriptures while this one also features Protestant evangelical scholars.
554 - Jun 2003 - Books: Culture and the Thomist Tradition : After Vatican II, by Tracey Rowland, Fr Peter Joseph STD
Available from the Central Catholic Bookshop in Melbourne (03) 9639 0844 and Gleebooks Glebe Sydney (02) 9660 2333) This book by the Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne begins with a study of the treatment of culture in part II of the Conciliar document Gaudium et Spes.
555 - Jun 2003 - Interview: Vatican II and the liturgy, 40 years later, Zenit News Service
He is episcopal vicar for religious education professor at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family and a parish priest in the Archdiocese of Melbourne.
556 - Jun 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Vatican Information Service Cardinal Trujillo defends new Vatican Lexicon Designed to clarify ambiguous and controversial terms A Vatican Lexicon issued to clarify the meaning of popular terms regarding marriage and family matters has been heavily criticised since its appearance in Italy in April.
557 - May 2003 - Books: Life-Giving Love: Embracing God's beautiful design for marriage, Kimberley Hahn, Leanne and Michael Casanova
LIFE-GIVING LOVE: Embracing Gods beautiful design for marriage by Kimberly Hahn Foreword by Scott Hahn (Servant Publications 2001 375pp $26.
558 - May 2003 - News: The Church Around the World
Vatican Information Service Kenyan Christian leaders unite on AIDS approach Sexual abstinence outside marriage should be encouraged Catholic and Anglican church leaders in Kenya have united against the use of condoms in the war against AIDS.
559 - May 2003 - Events: Carnivale Christi 2003 - A tale of four cities, Anthony McCarthy
Written while the future pope was a young man in Poland this remarkable play on sexuality and marriage reveals the Holy Fathers profound understanding of human relationships and love.
560 - Apr 2003 - Books: Our books are the cheapest!
NEW AUSTRALIAN EDITION Good News About Sex and Marriage Christopher West West is touring in Australia in March.
561 - Apr 2003 - Books: A Long Way From Rome, edited by Chris McGillion, John Barich
He makes no reference to the work in Australian dioceses of such groups and organisations as Communion and Liberation Focolare Antioch Ecclesia Dei Neo-Cathechumenal Way Marriage Encounter Marian Movement of Priests Thomas More Centres Charismatics Disciples of Jesus Opus Dei True Love Waits St Egidio Community John Paul Institute for Marriage and the Family Fellowship of Catholic Scholars or G.
562 - Apr 2003 - Archbishop Hickey's pastoral letter on marriage, Archbishop Barry Hickey
Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth issued a Pastoral Letter on Christian Marriage to coincide with World Marriage Day 9 February 2003.
563 - Mar 2003 - Books: The Latest from AD Books
00 NEW AUSTRALIAN EDITION: Good News About Sex and Marriage Christopher West West is touring in Australia in March.
564 - Mar 2003 - Letters: 'Partner' or spouse? (letter), Peter Hannigan
Rather persons in relationships whether of legal marriage or of de facto status are all referred to as partners.
565 - Mar 2003 - Vatican tells politicians: Don't hide your light, Michael Casanova
Other areas include safeguarding and promoting the family based on monogamous marriage between a man and a woman.
566 - Feb 2003 - Books: New year reading from AD Books
95 NEW AUSTRALIAN EDITION Good News About Sex and Marriage Christopher West West is touring in Australia in March.
567 - Feb 2003 - Letters: Threat to schools (letter), Richard Congram
Archbishop Bathersby attacked the amendments as a threat to Catholic education on marriage and sexual morality.
568 - Feb 2003 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family, Melbourne: a progress report, AD2000 Report
The John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family was opened in July 2001 by Cardinal Trujillo.
569 - Feb 2003 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The council attributed the difficult marriage situation to the increasingly secularised world family financial difficulties a false idea of freedom a fear of commitment the practice of living together and the trivialisation of sex.
570 - Dec 2002 - Books: Beyond the Blue Glass: Catholic Essays on Faith and Culture, Aidan Nichols OP, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne Australia.
571 - Dec 2002 - Books: Biography of Archbishop Pell launched in Melbourne: author interviewed
Around 250 people were present as Professor Anthony Fisher OP of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family launched the book.
572 - Dec 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
Divorce debate in Chile Pope supports Chiles Bishops on indissolubility of marriage John Paul II publicly supported the Chilean bishops call for a law in their country that recognises the indissoluble character of marriage.
573 - Nov 2002 - Books: The New Faithful: Why Young Adults are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy, Michael Gilchrist
This has found expression in such things as pro-life activism eucharistic devotion evangelisation or support for Church teachings on sex marriage and family.
574 - Nov 2002 - Letters: EWTN (letter), Jacqueline Donohue
EWTN transmits high quality programs both content-wise and technically 24 hours a day with regular features covering evangelisation Scripture theology apologetics marriage and family Catholic writers sacred music and lives of the saints.
575 - Nov 2002 - Father Fessio: real US crisis is 'spiritual abuse', Karl Maurer
Number 2366: The Church teaches that each and every marriage act be ordered per se to procreation of human life.
576 - Nov 2002 - News: The Church Around the World, AD2000
The African bishops said the judges ruling was contrary to natural law and to the universal view of marriage.
577 - Oct 2002 - Letters: Archbishop Pell (letter), Eamonn & Patricia Keane
The culture of life is predicated on the truth that God exists that there are objective moral norms the violation of which are intrinsically evil and that the family based on marriage is the foundation of society.
578 - Sep 2002 - Reflection: The Christian way to spiritual maturity, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
The amount of insight people gain through this can often mean the difference between a healthy or sick marriage or family.
579 - Sep 2002 - Books: Think Piece: Religious, Ethical and Moral Values, by Sebastian Camilleri OFM, Mark Posa
Fr Sebastians discussion of marriage is a classic example of an understanding of what should be the attitude of a married couple: Marriage is a very serious and personal and reciprocal commitment which draws together husband and wife for a permanent union for life until death do them part.
580 - Sep 2002 - Books: Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception, Bill Muehlenberg
Augustine for example saw three purposes for marriage: offspring fidelity and sacrament or as we would put it today procreation morality and relationship.
581 - Sep 2002 - John Paul II and World Youth Day in Toronto: an Anglican perspective, David Warren
True heroes What a mistake it would have been if this Holy Father had cheapened the Church by trying to change with the times by ordaining women accepting birth control allowing homosexual marriage gutting the liturgy appointing hip bishops - the whole gamut of my generations minimum demands.
582 - Aug 2002 - Books: Abortion And Martyrdom, edited by Aidan Nichols, Tracey Rowland
Dr Tracey Rowland is Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
583 - Aug 2002 - Books: Dynamics Of World History, by Christopher Dawson, Michael Lynch
Here he includes the destructive effects of contraception on a society which by undermining the necessity and attractiveness of marriage lead not only to a decline in population but also to social decay.
584 - Aug 2002 - Education: Beliefs and practices of Catholic students: the decline continues, Michael Gilchrist
only 20 percent thought sex outside of marriage morally wrong; while in the case of teachers only 43 percent believed euthanasia morally wrong.
585 - Jul 2002 - Editorial: Archbishop Pell: the '60 Minutes' beat-up, Michael Gilchrist
But those who like Dr Pell challenge the conventional wisdom of a secular culture in the areas of marriage family or bioethics will be as much a target of criticism as Archbishop Mannix and other earlier Church leaders ever were.
586 - Jun 2002 - Pope John Paul II on Catholic Action (from Ecclesia in Oceania), Pope John Paul II
The Christian concept of marriage and the family is being opposed by a new secular pragmatic and individualistic outlook which has gained standing in the area of legislation(45).
587 - Jun 2002 - Following our baptismal calling takes courage - Chrism Mass homily, Bishop Geoffrey Jarrett
In your marriage and families in your school and your workplace your sporting and leisure activities in all that you are and do you are apostles of Christ and his witnesses in this world to the world of higher things which is his eternal Kingdom.
588 - Jun 2002 - Moral leadership of American hierarchy under scrutiny at Rome meeting, Philip Lawler
They must know that bishops and priests are totally committed to the fullness of Catholic truth on matters of sexual morality a truth as essential to the renewal of the priesthood and the episcopate as it is to the renewal of marriage and family life.
589 - May 2002 - Letters: Decline of the faith (letter), Brian Carter
It said that even though the Vatican thunders about abortion same-sex marriage assisted suicide illicit sex consumerism smutty sex education defective theology and more yet in most parishes there is little effort made to rectify the situation.
590 - May 2002 - Catholicism in Australia: facing the challenges of Western secularism, Archbishop George Pell
So too the abandonment of demanding Christian teachings on sexuality marriage and children might provoke a few favourable editorials but would gain no converts and increase the suffering in society.
591 - Apr 2002 - Books: Engaged to be Married - A Giftbook for Engaged Couples, Michael Daniel
95 Available from AD Books) In the months of preparation for a marriage it is all too easy for the bride and groom to be so occupied with organising their wedding that they do not allow sufficient time to reflect upon what will be the most significant decision they will make in their lives.
592 - Apr 2002 - Books: The Clash Of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion and Morality in Crisis, David R. Oakley
The Clash of Orthodoxies will do much then to enhance the quality of public debate on controversial issues such as abortion euthanasia pornography embryonic stem cell research marriage and sexual morality and the role of the courts in resolving such issues.
593 - Apr 2002 - Melbourne 'Sexuality Directives' put parents first, Anthony Cappello
The document was a collaborative effort between the Catholic Education Office Vicar for Religious Education and members of the archdiocesan Council for Marriage and Family who together formed an advisory committee.
594 - Mar 2002 - Reflection: John Paul II: St Joseph's renewed significance for the Church, Br Christian Moe FSC
it was from his marriage to Mary that Joseph derived his singular dignity and his rights in regard to Jesus.
595 - Mar 2002 - News: The Church Around the World
Father Finnigan was ordained in 1970 for the Ballarat Diocese and prior to 1998 held positions of parish priest Bishops Secretary Director of the Marriage Tribunal Cathedral Administrator and Vicar General.
596 - Feb 2002 - New Titles from AD Books
95 Beginning Your Marriage John L.
597 - Feb 2002 - Letters: Human evolution, Fr Brian Harrison OS
Here is the entire Arcanum passage in question (with emphasis added in key expressions): What is the true origin of marriage?
598 - Dec 2001 - Books: AD Books 'Top Ten'
Good News About Sex and Marriage (Christopher West) Servant Publications 5.
599 - Dec 2001 - Books: 'Meaninglessness: The Solutions of Nietzsche, Freud and Rorty' by Michael Casey, Anthony Cappello
Its author Dr Michael Casey is a sociologist on the staff of the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney and Permanent Fellow in Sociology and Politics at the Australian Campus of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family.
600 - Dec 2001 - Letters: 'Familiaris Consortio' 20th anniversary, John Barich
An article in the Charter which is vitally important for todays Australia reads as follows: The institutional value of marriage should be upheld by the public authorities; the situation of non- married couples must not be placed on the same level as marriage duly contracted.
601 - Dec 2001 - Books: De Lubac's writings in English translations, Tracey Rowland
The following overview of some of the currently available writings of Cardinal Henri de Lubac (1896-1991) - translated into English - is provided by Dr Tracey Rowland Dean of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne (trowlandjp2institute.
602 - Nov 2001 - Reflection: All Souls Day and a Christian response to bereavement, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
We are suddenly thrust from marriage into singlehood from having a parent to having no parent from having a friend to being alone.
603 - Nov 2001 - Letters: Catholic teaching, John Schmid
Leo XIII did not even mention evolution in his encyclical Arcanum on Christian marriage.
604 - Nov 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
But it is Gods plan that a man and a woman united in marriage together with their children form a family Bishop Cawcutt said.
605 - Oct 2001 - Can US bishops enforce Papal teaching on Catholic universities?, Zenit News Service
Elsewhere others calling themselves Catholic theologians have argued in favor of abortion and same-sex marriage.
606 - Oct 2001 - Archbishop George Pell: 'The strong family is a religious family', Archbishop George Pell
The Archbishop pointed out that an enormous amount of empirical work has been done on the relationship between marriage breakdown and family dysfunction and the rise of the different social pathologies that pose such problems today for all of us but especially for law enforcement agencies and health and welfare workers.
607 - Sep 2001 - Books: 'The Book of Marriage', edited by Dana Mack and David Blankenhorn, Bill Muehlenberg
The Book of Marriage: The Wisest Answers to the Toughest Questions edited by Dane Mack and David Blankenhorn (Eerdmans 2001 620pp hardcover $60.
608 - Sep 2001 - Archbishop Hart's reception at St Patrick's Cathedral, Melbourne - Homily, Archbishop Denis Hart
It is to this purpose that the tenth campus of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family has been opened in Melbourne.
609 - Aug 2001 - Reflection: Clerical celibacy: Giving ourselves up completely to God and the people He loves, Fr Dennis W. Byrnes PP
The Sacrament of Marriage and the Sacrament of Priesthood demand a total response.
610 - Aug 2001 - Melbourne's new Archbishop receives Pallium from John Paul II, AD2000 Report
And: People who are active homosexually when the Church teaches that sexual activity belongs to marriage between a man and a woman means .
611 - Jul 2001 - Letters: De facto relationships (letter), Deirdre Lyra
The Australian Family Association President John Barich said the move was an attack on the institution of marriage.
612 - Jul 2001 - Archbishop Carnley: controversial Primate, Dr Ian Spry QC
In The Bulletin of 22 May 2001 he wrote in favour of homosexual relationships based on committed friendship and in many cases equated such relationships with marriage.
613 - Jun 2001 - Letters: Sexual abstinence (letter), Errol P. Duke
5 million young people since 1993 to abstain from sex until marriage.
614 - Jun 2001 - Denver document addresses challenges to Catholic marriage teachings, AD2000 Report
the Archdiocese of Denver sets out the ideals of Christian marriage as taught by the Catholic Church while addressing the pastoral challenges associated with widespread shacking up prior to marriage - a virtually universal situation in Western world dioceses.
615 - Jun 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
A three-year course is being developed for applicants which would cover Theology Sacramental Spirituality Homiletics Canon Law (especially about marriage law) Pastoral Theology and Practice and other areas important for the ministry.
616 - May 2001 - Books: 'He's Risen' by Phelim McGowan SJ, Mary-Jane Donnellan
On the other hand we also experience little resurrections such as celebrations births marriage - all positive.
617 - May 2001 - The Church in Germany: John Paul II expresses serious concerns, Catholic World News
He says that Catholic families should be faithful to the spirit of Christian marriage and must educate their children in the faith.
618 - May 2001 - Vatican signals continuation of reform process, AD2000 Report
These issues he said included the questions of Cafeteria Catholicism versus the Churchs authority calls for so-called democratisation of the Church as opposed to the rightful role of its hierarchy a trend towards forms of pantheism as opposed to seeing God as Creator of the universe seeing sexuality as self-expression rather than affirming its true place in committed love and marriage and a loss of understanding of what happens in the Churchs liturgy.
619 - Apr 2001 - Books: Keeping The Faith: Making a Difference by Wilson D. Miscamble, Michael Daniel
Thus topics such as developing a faith life as a student relationships and marriage employment and parenting are covered.
620 - Apr 2001 - Tanzania's Father Winfried makes return visit to Australia, Martin Sheehan
The Church and the state are often at loggerheads as to what to do about the AIDS problem he said with the state under pressure from the UN and other Western agencies to promote condom use while the Church continues to emphasise the need for fidelity and trust in marriage.
621 - Apr 2001 - Thomas More Centre Summer School 2001: "Building a Culture of Life", Michael Daniel
By contrast those cohabiting before marriage are twice as likely to separate than those who did not cohabit before marriage.
622 - Apr 2001 - John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family to open in July 2001, AD2000 Report
Perhaps the most important event in the recent history of Australian Catholic higher education is set to occur in July 2001 with the official opening of the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and Family in Melbourne.
623 - Mar 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II affirms permanence of marriage Addresses Roman Rota Pope John Paul II met with judges of the Roman Rota on 1 February and in his address told them marriage should be understood as a natural reality not just a proprietary institution of the Christian faith.
624 - Feb 2001 - Books: 'The Essence Of Feminism' by Kirsten Birkett, Catherine Sheehan
Through her research Birkett found that women today are not generally happy with their situation in life and that this is a result of feminisms largely successful campaign to have women in the workforce on equal terms with men and to downgrade the institution of marriage.
625 - Feb 2001 - Successful Thomas More Spring School in Wagga, Paul Sheehan
Their excellent portrayal of the story presented the true meaning of marriage employing a number of unique dramatic techniques - inspirational for anyone contemplating or already committed to marriage.
626 - Feb 2001 - News: The Church Around the World
De facto unions not equivalent to marriage Vatican document published The Pontifical Council for the Family has recently published a 79-page document titled Family Marriage and de facto Unions together with a communique signed by Cardinal Alfonso Lopez Trujillo and Bishop Francisco Gil Hellin respectively President and Secretary of the Council.
627 - Nov 2000 - The right to work: central to the Catholic Church's social teaching, Patrick Byrne
Unemployment restricts a persons possibilities for marriage and holding a family together.
628 - Nov 2000 - Fr Francis Harman RIP: bioethicist of distinction, Dr Joseph Santamaria
He held the highest office in the Melbourne Marriage Tribunal and the Tribunal of Australia and New Zealand.
629 - Nov 2000 - Irish missionary sisters combat AIDS in Africa
While traditionally Africans practised polygamy they also respected the values of virginity before marriage and fidelity and faithfulness within marriage.
630 - Nov 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
That ceremony included the celebration of twelve marriages.
631 - Oct 2000 - Archbishop Pell: social justice for today's family, Archbishop George Pell
And when we add the other factors which sadly so often play a part in these situations - marriage break-up gambling drug and alcohol abuse - the hopelessness is much greater and the capacity to contribute more severely constrained.
632 - Oct 2000 - Contentious Social Justice Statement on women's participation published, Michael Gilchrist
The Statement pledges to draw up policies of care to respond to the pain of people and groups of people within the Church who are struggling with the implications of Church teaching on the question of divorce and remarriage and to provide guidelines to assist in the pastoral care of those who are finding difficulty in understanding and accepting the Churchs teaching on the restriction of ordination to males as well as appropriate pastoral statements concerning Catholic teaching on such areas as sexuality marriage and family planning.
633 - Oct 2000 - 'Call to Change' in Tasmania: but whose 'vision of Church'?, Michael Gilchrist
Fr Whelan continued: For example the Church is struggling at this time to understand (in the light of the Good News the Tradition and the historical reality in which she finds herself) the meanings of such central features as priesthood Eucharist the authority and responsibilities of the Bishop of Rome marriage evangelisation catechesis and so on.
634 - Sep 2000 - Ensuring our schools are truly Catholic, Br John Moylan CFC
From the younger group there are few vocations to the priesthood and religious life and those who with their children benefit from a stable marriage are becoming a minority.
635 - Aug 2000 - Reflection: Re-discovering holiness will lead to more priestly vocations: Cardinal Daly, Cardinal Cahal Daly
Furthermore all unmarried men and women are required by the teaching of the Church to remain continent until marriage and to remain faithful to their spouses within marriage.
636 - Aug 2000 - Divorce and remarriage: Vatican reaffirms Church teaching
Christians who abandon a valid marriage in order to form another union are in effect involved in an adulterous relationship and thus a grave sin.
637 - Jul 2000 - Family Mission Novena: Australian response to Jubilee 2000
Marriage is under siege.
638 - Jul 2000 - Educating Catholics in a secular culture: a Canadian Internet initiative, J. Fraser Field
Our current issues section deals with multiculturalism homosexuality environmentalism feminism parenting persecution of Christians marriage and family medical ethics euthanasia population control sex and the media.
639 - Jul 2000 - New Zealand bishops endorse register of same sex couples, Richard Egan
In line with Catholic teaching the bishops stated that same-sex couples should not be able to marry because marriage was a specific kind of relationship and its specificity is based on sexual differentiation.
640 - Jul 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
The Cardinal said that he detected a liberal agenda being pursued against human life and the marriage- based family.
641 - Jul 2000 - New campus of John Paul II Institute set to open in Melbourne, AD2000 Report
Archbishop George Pell of Melbourne has appointed Very Rev Dr Anthony Fisher OP as Director of the Melbourne Campus of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family.
642 - Jun 2000 - How Catholics can help rebuild Christian culture, Archbishop Charles J. Chaput
Children from broken families find it harder to build permanent marriages themselves.
643 - May 2000 - Reflection: Mary's divine motherhood: central to God's plan of salvation, Sr Mary Augustine Lane OP
Her mediatorship which began at the Annunciation when she said yes for all mankind showed itself publicly at the marriage feast of Cana and reached its peak of earthly intensity on Calvary continues in heaven.
644 - May 2000 - How do we know whether a sacrament is valid or not?, Fr Peter Joseph
For all the sacraments except Baptism and Marriage he must be in Holy Orders.
645 - Apr 2000 - Impressive gathering of young people attend TMC Summer School, Michael Daniel
He spoke about marriage and the family.
646 - Apr 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
Archbishop Chaput defends status of marriage Alternative arrangements will not work Archbishop Charles J.
647 - Mar 2000 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul IIs address to Roman Rota Indissolubility of marriage affirmed On 21 January 2000 Pope John Paul II received members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota - as has been his annual practice.
648 - Feb 2000 - Defending the faith against secularism and relativism, Bishop Kevin Manning
Neither can the Church change her consistent teaching on marriage and human sexuality areas where immense pressure by the speculators is exerted arising from secular influences even within the Church.
649 - Dec 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
He further stated that the Churchs teaching the teaching of Jesus Christ from Divine Revelation is that the gift of human sexuality is oriented toward uniting a man and woman in marriage for life for their own unity in Christ and for the giving of new life to children.
650 - Oct 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
John Paul II Institute seminar in Rome Professors Summit Focuses on Family From 22-27 August some 100 University professors met in the Pontifical Lateran University in Rome to study Gods plan on marriage and the family.
651 - Aug 1999 - Order of Australia for pregnancy counselling centre's founder, AD2000 Report
which had a strong message encouraging teenagers to postpone sexual activity until marriage.
652 - Jul 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Zenit News De facto unions not an alternative to marriage Popes address to Pontifical Council for the family On 4 June Pope John Paul II received the participants of the 14th plenary session of the Pontifical Council for the Family who have been reflecting on the theme Paternity of God and Paternity in the Family.
653 - Jun 1999 - Bishops Conference resolves crisis over 'Statement of Conclusions', Michael Gilchrist
The Letter expressed what was the crux of the matter in paragraph 9: By most measurable criteria such as religious affiliation church attendance vocations marriage in church etc secularisation is making great inroads in Australia.
654 - May 1999 - Vocations: Confronting today's vocations crisis, Fr Paul Stuart
The best advertisement for marriage could only be a happily married couple.
655 - Apr 1999 - 1999 Thomas More Summer School: another resounding success
Former star AFL footballer Steven Lawrence and his wife Annie gave a personal account of their marriage - which was in itself a wonderful promotion of that sacrament.
656 - Apr 1999 - No living together before marriage: new research supports Church teaching, Mary Kenny
It is an increasingly accepted fact that young couples live together nowadays in a form of trial marriage (or in some cases instead of marriage.
657 - Apr 1999 - Bishop Heaps' book: a mistaken view of the Catholic Church, Stuart Rowland
The Bishop attacks the ordinary magisterium implying that it cannot be trusted and stating that Its teachings on marriage and sexual ethics have been abysmal.
658 - Apr 1999 - How an American diocese promotes individual confession
There may be someone who has been married and divorced or has some type of marriage complication .
659 - Apr 1999 - What the census statistics on religious affiliations reveal, Michael Gilchrist
The statements challenge to the bishops to arrest the decline has a note of urgency given that the Catholic Church seemingly represents the only substantial religious obstacle to the secularisation of Australian culture particularly as regards marriage and family the sanctity of human life moral values and bio-ethical developments.
660 - Apr 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News New Church guide to divorce remarriage New publication for priests The Vatican library has produced a new 130-page book which brings together a series of official Church statements on the status of Catholics who divorce and remarry.
661 - Mar 1999 - How a parish priest reinforces the Church's moral teaching, Fr Michael Butler
During the marriage preparation I mentioned as usual the Churchs teaching on the Pill but I could see that it made no impact on them.
662 - Mar 1999 - News: The Church Around the World
The same surveys also found that Irish young people are the least approving of homosexual marriages (36.
663 - Dec 1998 - Reflection: The mystery of Christmas confronts a sceptical world, Fr Robert J. Batule
We bubble with excitement over sacramental marriages and sacramental ordinations.
664 - Dec 1998 - Thomas More Centre's Sydney Spring School, Anthony English
Mary Helen Woods National President of the Australian Family Association provided a balanced look at young people and marriage in her talk: The Seinfeld Syndrome - family relationships and all that!
665 - Dec 1998 - News: The Church Around the World
Catholic World News The Popes direction on marriage annulments Canon Law must be followed scrupulously In an address on 17 October to a group of American bishops making their ad limina visit to Rome Pope John Paul II said that as moderators of their diocesan tribunals bishops should ensure that their faithful did not have the mistaken idea that a Church annulment is divorce under a different name.
666 - Sep 1998 - Pope John Paul II's new Apostolic Letter on Bishops' Conferences, Apostolos Suos, Michael Gilchrist
Bureaucracy This phenomenon was typified by the recent release of the document Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children by the Committee on Marriage and Family of the US Bishops Conference.
667 - Sep 1998 - Archbishop Pell: 'Humanae Vitae' teachings 'are not an optional extra', Michael Gilchrist
Natural Family Planning However the Archbishop added Pope Paul VI rejected methods of family planning which involve interventions upon the body or the marriage act radically separating love-making from life-making.
668 - Jun 1998 - John Henry Newman on liturgical tradition, Cardinal John Henry Newman
Though to speak the truth our chief ordinances are to be found there as the Sacraments public worship the observance of the Lords-day ordination marriage and the like.
669 - Dec 1997 - Adelaide Cathedral administrator calls for Church blessing of homosexual unions, Peter Westmore
A young woman who described herself as a Protestant Christian asked: I was wondering if you as a Catholic could have a homosexual marriage?
670 - Jul 1997 - Reflection: Catholic youth: facing the challenges to faith (Pastoral Letter), Archbishop George Pell
They are a certainly a poor preparation for a good marriage and for bringing up good children.
671 - Oct 1996 - How the new Catechism can impact on the secular culture, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
It also reflects on the admissibility of sexual intercourse before marriage.
672 - Sep 1996 - Editorial: Archbishop Pell’s appointment to Melbourne, B.A. Santamaria
However difficult Christs teachings may be to practise and however often the individual Catholic breaks down personally as we all do there is no doubt that the Church faithfully reflects Christs teachings when it states that sex outside marriage remarriage after divorce homosexual practices and so on were precluded by Christ himself.
673 - Jul 1996 - Vendée Catholics during the French Revolution, James Bogle
Calling the Loire a truly revolutionary river he invented the republican marriage - two Vendeans tied naked together a man and a woman displayed and mocked in a public place and then thrown into the river to drown.
674 - Apr 1996 - Emperor Charles I: World War I peace campaigner, James Bogle
Their marriage had been a love match from the start fortified by a mutually strong Catholic faith Austria-Hungary was a polyglot empire consisting of many little nations.
675 - Dec 1995 - Beijing UN Conference on Women - How Holy See took on the feminist agenda, Rita Joseph
While this coalition was keen to proscribe early marriage for girls it was adamant that there was to be no proscription of early sexual activity for girls the only concern being to ensure that such activity was not unprotected.
676 - Aug 1995 - Blessed Edith Stein (1891-1942): The most significant German woman this century, Mary O'Neill
The Catholic theology of marriage was a safeguard of womans intrinsic value as a helpmate for man in an enduring indissoluble union to rear children as citizens of Gods kingdom: To win children for heaven - to awaken divine sparks in a childs heart.
677 - Jul 1995 - Edel Quinn (1907-1944): Ireland's 20th century apostle to Africa, Michael Gilchrist
A lapsed Catholic Pierre returned to the practice of the faith under Edels influence; but his marriage proposal was politely turned down when Edel explained her plan to enter the Poor Clares an order of contemplative nuns.
678 - Apr 1995 - New Melbourne R.E. Guidelines: an improvement on the old, Michael Gilchrist
135); A personal moral decision must be guided by an informed conscience; Appreciate and articulate key Catholic beliefs on sexuality and marriage (with reference to Humanae Vitae and Familiaris Consortio) and critically evaluate the way in which the media portrays sexuality and marriage.
679 - Feb 1995 - Education: How to keep Catholic schools 'Catholic', Tom Kendell
The Catechism of the Catholic Church makes clear that an early and active role is required of parents in the education in faith of their children: Through the grace of the sacrament of marriage parents receive the responsibility and privilege of evangelising their children.
680 - Jul 1994 - Books: 'Catechism of the Catholic Church', Fr Peter Joseph
11 is quoted in its usual inept translation: each and every marriage act must remain open to the transmission of life.
681 - May 1994 - Reflection: Our Lady: the family context, Bishop George Pell
The possessive parent will allow the child to grow up and become independent the selfish marriage partner will become more sensitive to the needs of the other partner good parents will sacrifice themselves without fuss or hesitation for the good of their children.
682 - Mar 1994 - Books: 'Commentary on the Catechism of the Catholic Church', Michael Gilchrist
Dr Lisa Sowle Cahill Professor of Theology at Boston College and Past President of the Catholic Theological Society of America judges that the Catechisms insistence that the teaching on the sacramentality of all marriages between baptised persons has been part of Christian belief from the New Testament onward and that even creation as presented in Genesis clearly requires monogamy and indissolubility is fallacious (emphasis added).
683 - Mar 1994 - Townsville Mass attendance document - 'Where have all the parishioners gone?'
It is in these Small Christian Communities that the real issues (our emphasis) often come to light - the violence in the family unemployment abuse of children poverty marriage unhappiness .
684 - Feb 1994 - New studies raise question: How 'Catholic' are Catholic schools?, Michael Gilchrist
shack up (up from 58% in 1982); 58% said abortion was alright if pregnancy was the result of rape (41% in 1982); 19% accepted the Churchs teaching on birth control (27% in 1982); 20% thought sexual intercourse outside of marriage was morally wrong (28% in 1972) (p.
685 - Nov 1993 - Thomas More Centre Lecture: Janet Smith champions Church's moral teaching, Dr Janet Smith
Dr Janet Smith in her lecture and workshop at the Thomas More Centre outlined the truth underlying the Churchs moral teachings - as set out in Humanae Vitae and Veritatis Splendor - and drew attention to the damage done by contraception to a womans body and to marriage.
686 - Nov 1993 - In the aftermath of 'Veritatis Splendor', B.A. Santamaria
Why should they if the Church to which they belong seemed to adopt the position that it had nothing to say on that aspect of life which is so powerfully linked with marriage the family and children?
687 - Sep 1993 - Archbishop Hickey's Pastoral Letter - 'Humanae Vitae' 25th anniversary, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
Exactly twenty-five years ago on 25 July 1968 Pope Paul VI issued his Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae in which he presented a glowing vision of Christian marriage and affirmed the Churchs traditional teaching on artificial contraception.
688 - Sep 1993 - Lincoln, Nebraska - how to fill seminaries with vocations, Fr T.I. Thorburn
The Diocese of Lincoln propagates the Churchs teaching concerning marriage and sexuality as taught by Pope Paul VI in his encyclical Humanae Vitae.
689 - Jul 1993 - Brother Andrew speaks out on the Catholic crisis, Brother Andrew
If he were Pope he says he would consecrate witches gay and lesbian marriages among other bizarre things.
690 - Mar 1993 - Books: A review of the 'Catechism of the Catholic Church' (French Edition), Fr Peter Joseph
in the mystery of the Holy Spirits procession in the Holy Trinity (248); in the treatment of Confirmation where East and West differ about the ordinary minister (priest or bishop 1312-3) and time of conferral (at baptism or later 1290-2); similarly for marriage where the Latin Church sees the spouses as the ministers of the sacrament whilst the Oriental liturgies see the priest as the minister (1623).
691 - Feb 1993 - Marriage destabilised by contraception, Archbishop Barry J. Hickey
During an address at the Australian Family Association Conference in Perth in October 1992 Archbishop Barry Hickey of Perth spoke of the ways in which contraception could undermine the Christian concept of marriage.
692 - Oct 1992 - Why is Archbishop Weakland invited to Australia?, AD2000 Report
He also approved a graphic sex education program Valuing your Sexuality which teaches 6th-9th grade students for example that There is no right and no wrong when it comes to contraception abortion or sex before marriage.
693 - Aug 1992 - The problem of suffering, Fr Campion Murray OFM
Now multiply that across human experience - marriage breakdowns personal breakdowns professional breakdowns breakdown in the education of children.
694 - Aug 1992 - Surveys highlight decline of mainline Christianity, Michael Gilchrist
Marriage figures for 1985-1990 showed that barely half Anglicans marry in an Anglican church.
695 - Jul 1992 - Editorial: The principle for which Thomas More died, B.A. Santamaria
Thomas More did not claim having himself seriously considered the Kings argument against the validity of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon that he had made up his own mind personally reaching the conclusion that the marriage was valid: and that it was as a result of his personal and individual judgement that he had arrived at a position of conscience which compelled him to disobey the Kings will expressed in law.
696 - Mar 1992 - Sin: Shakespeare got it right, Susan Moore
Early on for example he encourages an engaged couple to repent of having gone to bed before the marriage ceremony; later in the play he exposes more intractable sins in more intractable sinners.
697 - Feb 1992 - The Pope's agenda - overcoming the obstacles, Michael Gilchrist
It is clear at the outset that John Paul has been at one with Pope John XXIII in striving to safeguard the deposit of Faith (while renewing its presentation) and with Pope Paul VI in confirming the force of the Churchs moral teachings on marriage and family in Humanae Vitae complementing these with encyclicals of his own such as Familiaris Consortio.
698 - Dec 1991 - Editorial: Can the internal schism be solved?, B.A. Santamaria
What is really at stake was articulated most clearly by Paul Johnson at the time of the publication of the Report of the Papal Commission on Reproduction at a time when as editor of New Statesman and Nation he had not returned to the Catholic Church into which he was born: The report adopts the common-sense line that granted parents have a responsible attitude towards marriage the way they plan their families should be left to them.
699 - Aug 1991 - New Zealand Catholicism to put on Maori clothing?, John Kennedy OBE
Primitive Maori religious beliefs governed virtually every aspect of life from the preparation of food or hunting to the making of war from fishing to building a canoe to birth marriage or death.
700 - Jun 1991 - Encyclical: John Paul II's Memorial to 'Rerum Novarum': a summary of 'Centesimus Annus', B.A. Santamaria
Here we mean the family founded on marriage in which the mutual gift of self by husband and wife creates an environment in which children can be born and develop their potentialities become aware of their dignity and prepare to face their unique and individual destinies.
701 - Mar 1990 - 'Being church': manipulating language to change meaning, Fr Peter J. Elliott
God forms the domestic church through the sacramental covenant of marriage which signifies his nuptial union with the Church his beloved bride.
702 - Feb 1990 - 'Holland of the Pacific'?: Catholicism in New Zealand, John Kennedy OBE
There are unfortunately real grounds for questioning the commitment of sections of the Church to such fundamental issues as the doctrine of the Real Presence the nature of the priesthood the Petrine Primacy the official teaching of the Church on matters of sexual morality ranging from contraception to abortion to homosexuality and lastly but of extreme importance the matter of the permanence of marriage.
703 - Nov 1989 - Thomas More and today's crisis in faith and morals, John Finnis
This theory which has no support in the Churchs tradition or Scripture and which is exposed to devastating philosophical objections well-developed by secular as well as Christian philosophers is supported really by an appeal to the experience of the faithful today of those contemporary Christians who feel that there are situations in which they can do more good or avoid greater harm by aborting babies trying out sexual compatibility before marriage winning wars or securing peace by carrying out or planning massacres of civilians finding a new sexual partner after a failed marriage contracepting to prevent the bad effects of having another baby now - and so forth.
704 - Oct 1989 - Catholicism at the crossroads, Michael Gilchrist
The Australian Broadcasting Commissions Catholic expert Fr Paul Collins told a 1987 Melbourne Conference Catholic Schools Towards 2000 that a future Church would have to allow the real decisions such as Church teaching catechetics morals liturgy Church law marriage .
705 - Sep 1989 - Christianity: new threats in the aftermath of the fall of Communism, Paul Johnson
Throughout the West the rules - based essentially on the unique legitimacy of the monogamous union on fidelity within marriage and chastity outside it and on the notion of reciprocal duties between spouses and between parents and children - are designed to preserve the family as the ideal social unit and as such reflect basic Christian moral theology.
706 - Jul 1989 - An Agnostic analyses Catholicism: interview with Leszek Kolokawski, Paul Gray
There can be no objection to the Church teaching that marriage is indissoluble and that the Catholic Church gives no recognition to divorces.
707 - Sep 1988 - 'Putting the essence of the Faith in doubt' (Jean Guitton), B.A. Santamaria
Among them there would be thousands of Catholic women who originally contracted valid marriages whose husbands have walked out on them and who have re-married simply to seek ordinary human companionship.
708 - Jul 1988 - 'Humanae Vitae' twenty years after, B.A. Santamaria
The Family Law Act transformed permanent marriage into temporary concubinage thereby dissolving the fabric of the family.
709 - Jun 1988 - Muggeridge at eighty-five: the long road from agnosticism to faith, B.A. Santamaria
The last was at his own home a small but comfortable farmhouse in Robertsbridge Sussex at the beginning of 1978 when I happened to be visiting Britain on the occasion of my sons marriage.
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