Unique for A Reason – Minnesota Catholic Conference – Minnesota Marriage Amendment – Catholic Teaching on Marriage

(by Jason) We usually do not respond to the garden-variety attacks on the Church and our position on marriage and sexuality because the fallacies are simply not worth a response. But occasionally, there is a letter or article that warrants a closer look. Such a letter came across my desk a couple of months ago. [...]

The following highlights a great response on National Catholic Register from Catholic convert and apologist Jimmy Akins to a recent article trending on the Internet that claims same-sex marriage used to be a Christian Rite. According to the original article: Contrary to myth, Christianity’s concept of marriage has not been set in stone since the [...]

(by Dave) The recent story of an English teacher being dismissed from her job at a Catholic high school because she had been using in vitro fertilization (IVF) has brought out a number of criticisms of the Catholic Church’s teaching.  According to bio-ethicist Art Caplan, the Church’s teaching is “cruel and anti-life.”  Some of my [...]

(by Andrew) When it comes to politics, we Americans can be an impassioned lot. Though we may not have invented the concepts of voting, rallies, or perennial election seasons, we have certainly elevated them to a higher and more perfect art form. For the most part, this has been to our advantage. Say what you [...]

Video source: The Apostleship of Prayer Each month Pope Benedict XVI chooses two prayer intentions: a general intention and a mission intention. He invites Christians throughout the world to pray with him for these specific needs. For the month of May, the Holy Father’s general intention is for the family: “…that initiatives which defend and [...]

(by Dave) About a year or two into our marriage, my wife and I were asked by the director of the archdiocesan marriage planning program to serve on a panel of couples answering questions from engaged couples about what marriage is really like. Of course our parents were a little incredulous —“What on earth do [...]

(by Theresa) The first wave of feminism at the turn of the century and the early 1900s supported women’s equality, wanted to give women the right to vote, and sought to elevate everything feminine.  The second wave of feminism around the 1960s pushed forward the plight of women’s equality, but there was one very significant [...]

Check out the USCCB’s Marriage: Unique for a Reason blog for their weekly Sunday Pope Quote series on marriage, love, and the meaning of the human person. The following is a compelling quote from this past Sunday: Bl. John Paul II: “Love then is not a utopia: it is given to mankind as a task [...]

(by Jessica) Back in 2008 there was controversy about a reported cancellation by the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis of a prayer service at St. Joan of Arc parish in Minneapolis. The allegations hurled then at the Archdiocese (and really, the Catholic Church in general) are similar to what continues to be narrowly reported [...]

(by Jessica) The New York Times recently published an article on the risks of cohabitation. Mercatornet followed up with a commentary pointing out how the author of the article essentially minimized the research and circumvented what the data points to: cohabitation is likely to cause problems for you, your relationship and your potential for a [...]

(by John) One of my favorite titles given to Jesus in the New Testament is “author of life” (Acts 3:15). It acknowledges two facts regarding God: he is the author of all physical life; and, he is the author of all spiritual life. We see in John 2 that Jesus first reveals himself and performs [...]