Inside the Capitol

  • How DARE We Pray for Marriage? Really?

    Posted by · January 10, 2012 3:27 PM

    Written by Jason Adkins, Executive Director and General Counsel

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  • Defending marriage: Is the Church being too ‘political’?

    Posted by · January 04, 2012 4:30 PM

    Some people, Catholics included, are complaining that the Church’s very public defense of marriage through the promotion of the Minnesota Marriage Protection Amendment is too “political.”

    It certainly is political, but the complainants are mistaken about what that means and the Church’s legitimate sphere of activity.

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  • Combating poverty in the public arena

    Posted by · December 21, 2011 9:45 AM

    The following column is provided by the Minnesota Catholic Conference, which advocates on behalf of the state’s bishops for public policies and programs that support the life and dignity of every human person.

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  • Parental involvement key to expanding school choice in Minnesota

    Posted by · December 06, 2011 9:45 AM

    As we reflect on the past year, 2011 will be viewed as an unprecedented year for school choice in our nation. Since January, eight new school choice programs have sprung up around the nation and 11 existing programs have been expanded.

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  • "I Want a Mom and a Dad."

    Posted by · December 06, 2011 9:42 AM

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  • Love, marriage and the ‘tools’ of engagement

    Posted by · November 22, 2011 9:45 AM

    Recently, USA Today reported that a group of politicians who want to redefine marriage are calling on their advocates to shift the focus from an argument about equal rights to an argument about “love and commitment.”

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  • The Social Justice and Marriage Connection

    Posted by · November 18, 2011 3:39 PM

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  • Occupy Wall Street? Let’s occupy the adoration chapels

    Posted by · November 10, 2011 9:45 AM

    The Occupy Wall Street movement has been the big story of the last few months.  What fictional “Wall Street” movie character Gordon Gekko called the NINJA generation (No Income, No Jobs, No Assets) is gathering to­gether in major urban centers to protest growing income inequality, a lousy economy in which there are few available jobs, and the feeling that our nation is ruled by a plutocracy of bankers and financial speculators.

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  • We Need Two to Be One

    Posted by · October 27, 2011 2:55 PM

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