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Federal Judge in Pennsylvania Assigns Marriage to the 'Dust-heap of History': Persecution in a New Missionary Age

By Deacon Keith A Fournier | May 22, 2014

On Tuesday, May 20, 2014, Federal US District Judge John E Jones III of Pennsylvania discarded marriage to "the ash heap of history." Those were his very words! Of course he hid them in the judicial sophistry which now accompanies these frequent acts of judicial imperialism. He maintains he is opening the door to the oxymoron called "gay marriage" and claimed to be somehow liberating out entire social order because, in his words, "We are a better people than what these laws represent". The laws he is referring to are the laws which the people of Pennsylvania passed in 1996 defining marriage as between one man and one woman. Of course, those laws also reflected the Natural Moral Law, the Bible, the Christian and Jewish tradition -and almost every other major religious tradition. The laws concerning marriage between one man and one woman cross cultural and religious lines and are universally accepted precisely because they are true and they serve the common good.

Archbishop Chaput, Pennsylvania Catholic Conference on the Judges Decision to Strike down the Defense of Marriage Law

By Catholic Online | May 22, 2014

Marriage is more than a private arrangement between two people. It's a public commitment of love and fidelity, and it's ordered not just to companionship but to creating and rearing new life. This is why every child deserves a mother and a father in a loving marriage, and the child is the fruit of that love. All men and women are formed in the image of God and deserve our respect. But attempts to redefine the nature of marriage, no matter how well intentioned, damage a cornerstone of our human interaction and ultimately work against human dignity itself.- Archbishop Charles Chaput

Greenland found to be full of hidden ice canyons - and why this is bad news

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 20, 2014

On the heels of an announcement by the European Space Agency that the Antarctic ice sheets are melting, scientists have released a detailed study of the ice in Greenland. Part of their conclusions show that melting glaciers hidden in deep canyons could contribute more to sea level rise than previously thought.

WIFE, MOTHER SENTENCED TO DIE: American husband says wife is in shackles in Sudan prison

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 20, 2014

The American husband of a Sudanese woman, sentenced to be flogged and executed for marrying a Christian, says he saw his wife along with their toddler son on death row. She's chained and shackled in her prison cell. The woman in question, 27-year-old Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag is expecting her second child. Authorities say she will be flogged and executed after she gives birth a second time.

BALANCING ACT: Majority of Christians in Israel are Arabic

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 20, 2014

Christians make up just two percent of the population in Israel. However, since the last papal visit to the Holy Land five years ago, the number of Christians in Israel has noticeably. The makeup of the Israeli Christian population has continued to shift - a mixture of nationalities and backgrounds.

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Pope Francis in Jerusalem: Will the Meeting with Patriarch Bartholomew Advance Full Communion?

By Deacon Keith A Fournier | May 22, 2014

The Catholic Church proclaims that, in and through Jesus Christ, and by the power of the Holy Spirit, authentic unity with God the Father - and with one another - is the plan of God for the entire human race. The Church is the way toward that unity. As Orthodox and Catholic Christians we should want to walk toward that unity and not fear it. The image used of two lungs breathing together is a prophetic one. The Orthodox and Catholic Churches need one another. The Church is meant to become the home of the whole human race. For the Church to continue the redemptive mission of Jesus most effectively, she must be one. It was not the Lord\'s plan that Christians be separated. It is His Plan that the Church be restored to full communion. His prayer will someday be answered. May this visit of the successor of Peter hasten that day.

Jeb Bush: School Choice is the Natural Progression of Brown v. Board of Education

By Deacon Keith Fournier | May 21, 2014

Jeb Bush is correct. It is time to move beyond the stale rhetoric and ineffective top down federal educational programs and enact real educational Reform in the United States. That reform requires parental or school choice. We need real educational revolution and not the rearranging of chairs on the Titanic which has masqueraded as educational reform in the past. I use the term parental choice in education when advocating for this reform because I think it more aptly recognizes that parents are the first teachers. Therefore, they should be the ones who make the choice where to expand their teaching mission for their own children. This choice should make available for all parents good public, private, parochial, virtual, classical, charter and home schools.

RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION: Worst eight countries listed

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 19, 2014

Most distressing is the fact that religious persecution continues in the world today. Somewhere, someone has a deeply held belief that is perceived as a threat to others. The State Department has listed eight separate nations as the worst places to practice religion. The nations listed are, in the words of the department, "authoritarian governments that restrict their citizens' ability to practice their religion."

Kianna's 'friend' makes his intentions clear - Part III

By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) | May 16, 2014

Kianna found herself on the leather car seat of her newfound friend's Mercedes, a man as old as her lost father. His name was Satyajit, but he insisted that Kianna call him "Jo." He was navigating through the hot, dusty streets of Delhi, now more a world away with the car's blasting air conditioner behind smoky windows. "So, where are we going, Jo?"

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