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When America's Catholic bishops gather next week in Baltimore for a four-day conference, they will hear an update on the Catholic Church's ongoing fight to convince the country that marriage as an institution should never include gay couples, and they'll get a sneak peek at how that fight will be waged in the coming year. Videos aimed at priests and deacons are being produced in English and Spanish to give the pastors better tools to reach their parishioners, especially young people, whom the church fears need reminding about its basic teachings on marriage, love...
...Baltimore, the church's continuing opposition to gay marriage will be part of a discussion by the bishops as they finish a formal letter on "married love" and reproduction, a document that will also spell out its position against abortion and in vitro fertilization. A draft of the document makes the case that marriage has been under assault for decades by secularists, feminists and others who see it as a social construction easily morphed into new shapes or ignored altogether. Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, who leads the U.S. church's efforts to prevent the legalization of same-sex marriage, was encouraged...
Kurtz reiterated his church stands opposing the discrimination against and ill-treatment of homosexuals. "The church truly desires to be a defender of human rights," says the Archbishop. He also admits that many Americans do not share Catholic teachings about marriage. Nevertheless, he says the church believes that the "defense of truth," as God, nature and human history have revealed it, cannot be separated from the pursuit of justice. You can't have justice, he argues, if the truth of marriage between one man and one woman as a cornerstone of human society is denied. (See a pictorial history...
...Bishop Roy F. “Bud” Cederholm, suffragan bishop of the Massachusetts Diocesis, climate change and environmental degradation is not only definitively linked to Christian theology, but is at its core. It is the “most serious ethical, moral, and justice issue that the church faces today” and should be at the forefront of churches’ agendas, he said...
Former Vice President Al Gore ’69 spoke to a packed audience about his latest book “Our Choice: A Plan To Solve the Climate Crisis” at First Parish Church in Harvard Square on Saturday afternoon...