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Three Catholic dioceses in Illinois have dropped their lawsuits against the state and closed their adoption agencies rather than comply with a state law commanding that they not discriminate against gay couples. “The decision not to pursue further appeals was reached with great reluctance, but was necessitated by the fact that the State of Illinois has made it financially impossible …

Gay people are destroying marriage! Gay people are destroying the family! The Blessed Virgin Mother, Jesus H. Christ, God and four more white people agree, gay people are sick deviants! (Psst, wanna see my 4000 photos of hot young prepubescent kids?)

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops have launched a new “marriage defense” website. And in a speech excerpted on Think Progress, Prop 8 mastermind Bishop Salvatore Cordileone vows that the Catholic Church will support the upcoming anti-gay bills in Minnesota and North Carolina. (We’ve already seen that in Minnesota.) In the midst of these various challenges, we continue to be …

“It was disgusting to see adults trivialize marriage by bickering about benefits for gay couples while the rights and interests of children in the marriage of their mothers and fathers were being thrown under the bus. Children have a right to know and be cared for by their mothers and fathers, and government has an obligation to promote the recognition …

New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan has issued a special decree vowing severe punishment if any priest or deacon dares to solemnize a gay union or allow any Catholic-owned facility to be used for such an event. The decree also vows retaliation if any lay employee of the Church participates in a gay wedding. In addition to the above edict, Dolan …

“Redefining marriage also threatens the fundamental human right of religious freedom. Those who refuse on moral and religious grounds to accept or accommodate the redefinition of legal marriage are already being wrongly accused of bigotry and hatred, bias and prejudice. They are being stigmatized and marginalized precisely because they are exercising their religious freedom to teach and practice their values. …

Yesterday the Archdiocese of Boston retracted and apologized for their newspaper article claiming that gay people are created by Satan. Today comes word that the author of that piece has “resigned.” David Avila was the official defender of marriage for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. Watch for Avila to land at NOM any minute. REACTIONS… Human Rights Campaign: “Mr. …

The Archdiocese of Boston has retracted its column claiming that gay people are created by Satan. (On Monday that column was excerpted here on JMG.) The article was written by David Avila, the policy advisor for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Subcommittee for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage. The 182-year-old newspaper withdrew the column from its website on …

According to New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan, Catholic parishes have been inundated with threats of lawsuits over not hosting gay weddings. That revelation will come as a surprise to the rest of the world, who has not heard a single peep about any such thing. “One of our arguments has always been that people of principle who feel this violates …

According to the official newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, Satan made you gay just to piss off God. In other words, the scientific evidence of how same-sex attraction most likely may be created provides a credible basis for a spiritual explanation that indicts the devil. Any time natural disasters occur, we as people of faith look back to Scripture’s …

The Catholic Archdiocese of New York is piling on Gov. Cuomo, who earned the ire of hate groups by declaring that opposition to civil rights is “anti-American.” From their blog: I have been warning for some time about the intolerance that we are likely to face from the forces of “tolerance” who backed the bill legalizing same-sex “marriage” here in …

Minnesota’s Catholic bishops say they are ready to lead the statewide effort to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. And they’ve already begun their push by asking priests to form local anti-gay committees in each of their parishes. “It is imperative that we marshal our resources to educate the faithful about the church’s teachings on these matters, and to …

For the first time a Catholic bishop has been indicted for ignoring complaints that a priest under his authority was molesting children. The charge, outrageously, is a mere misdemeanor. The indictment of the bishop, Robert W. Finn, and the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph by a county grand jury was announced on Friday. Each was charged with one misdemeanor count …

Catholic Charities has lost its request for a stay on the cancellation of its adoption contract with Illinois, a relationship severed by the state when the group refused to serve gay and unmarried couples. Judge John Schmidt on Monday denied Catholic Charities’ request to stay his earlier ruling that the group has no right to state contracts to provide adoption …

Along with LGBT activists, thousands of advocates for the victims of child abuse protested the Pope’s appearance in Berlin yesterday.

“Mr. President, I respectfully urge you to push the reset button on your Administration’s approach to DOMA. Our federal government should not be presuming ill intent or moral blindness on the part of the overwhelming majority of its citizens, millions of whom have gone to the polls to directly support DOMAs in their states and have thereby endorsed marriage as …

Catholic authorities in England and Wales have ruled that their flocks must once again abstain from eating meat on Fridays as penance for the death of Jesus. The edict went into effect last week. The decision to reinstate the custom was announced by the bishops of England and Wales in May. September 16 was chosen as the reintroduction date because …

If you know the name Father Frank Pavone, it’s probably from when he infested our television screens every night as the “spiritual adviser” and “Godly spokesman” for the comatose Terry Shiavo. Following that bit of limelight hogging, Pavone recast himself as the nation’s most virulent Catholic in the battle against abortion rights, often appearing shoulder-to-shoulder with the murderous loons of …

At the International Criminal Court in The Hague, representatives of victims of child abuse today filed a formal accusation against Pope Benedict and other top Catholic officials, charging them with crimes against humanity for enabling pedophile priests. The submission, lodged at The Hague on Tuesday, accuses the four men not only of failing to prevent or punish perpetrators of rape …

According to a leaked diplomatic cable, the Vatican came out against Uganda’s still-pending “kill the gays” bill after lobbying efforts by the American embassy. Via Box Turtle Bulletin: Embassy Vatican has actively lobbied Holy See officials to take a stand against pending legislation in Uganda that would criminalize homosexuality and in extreme cases, even punish it with death (reftel). On …