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Love on Trial

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

The Episcopal Church contorts its theology to conform to the broader culture, but the culture has no real use for a Christianity remade in its image.

“Love” Conquers All

NEW OXFORD NOTEBOOK

Pieter Vree

What a crazy, mixed-up world we live in where even polygamists claim their lifestyles are part of their 'identity' and who they were created to be.

The Truth About the Homosexual Rights Movement

THE BOOKS WERE A FRONT FOR THE PORN

Ronald G. Lee

I am convinced that many, if not most, people who are familiar with the lives of homosexuals know the truth but refuse to face it.

Action Speaks Louder

Nobody really expects anything other than carefully-penned statements from the USCCB. But what's preventing our bishops from performing a great exorcism of the U.S., as has happened in Mexico?

The Catholic Church After Obergefell

THE CASE FOR ORTHODOXY

Thomas Storck

If we restore not only orthodoxy but a concern for a genuinely Catholic identity, we can more effectively turn to our task of conveying the Gospel to the world.

Learning to Live as Dissidents

The first victim of media vilification following the decision was Justice Antonin Scalia, who made clear that he thought the Court had overstepped its bounds and that the majority opinion "poses a threat to American democracy."

Acquiescing to Alternative Voices

The spectacle of Catholics supporting social movements that counter Church teaching can't be blamed on poor catechesis but on the absence of catechesis.

The High Cost of Free Speech

Many high-profile tech leaders have been strong and generous backers of the effort to legalize same-sex marriage. Former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich was run out of town for having donated a meager $1,000 to the opposition. Corporate culture still encourages a groupthink mentality.

The French Revolution, Part Deux

France is seeing its largest, most prolonged public demonstrations of the past several decades; millions are protesting same-sex marriage and adoption.

Same-Sex "Marriage" & the Totalitarian Notion of Civil Authority

MAKING PUBLIC WHAT IS PRIVATE

William Newton

Freedom-of-conscience clauses are an implicit admission that the law might be unjust, and if a law might be unjust, it ought not to be passed at all.

The Identity of the Family Is in Jeopardy

In 2010 then-Cardinal Bergoglio sent a letter to the Carmelite nuns of the Archdiocese of Buenos Aires asking them to pray that God spare their nation from the harm of same-sex marriage.

There Goes the Village

Not long after the same-sex marriage battles have begun we are beginning to hear promotion of polygamy, three-parent laws, and even talk of legal incest.

"Gay Marriage" Is Not Marriage. Here's Why.

AN INVITATION TO INSANITY

Monica Migliorino Miller

The needed healing of our sexual ethic is primarily the work of the Church — a Church that contributed to the moral degeneration of the culture by remaining silent on contraception.

The Wages of Motherhood

Viewed from the perspective of home and community, there's so much value attached to the work of stay-at-home mothers, that we've only just begun to count the cost of losing them to the workplace.

The Future of Marriage in America

Perhaps the Church in America could take a lesson from Mexico, where the government does not recognize ecclesiastical marriages and Catholics must get married .

Totalitarianism or Anarchy?

Homosexuals regard the outlawing of same-sex "marriage" as a violation of political and cultural freedom - a soft despotism.

Hysteria Central

Michael O'Brien is an accomplished Catholic novelist. His strength is fiction.

A Rosy Future for Same-Sex "Marriage"?

RUMP RANGERS IN ANCIENT ROME

Leland D. Peterson

To be like ancient Rome, the U.S. in the 21st century has only to elect as its president a bachelor with same-sex partners and then to await plagues, invasions, and epidemics to hasten its decline and fall.

Is Same-Sex "Marriage" Inevitable?

American culture is so degenerate that it hardly makes any difference anymore.