Pages tagged "Marriage and Family"
Washing our hands of religious liberty
The debate over the Indiana Religious Freedom Restoration Act has brought us clarity. If you have wondered to what extent some advocates ...
Continue reading…The Visitor: State's Catholic bishops highlight policy priorities in meetings with governor, legislators
For Bishop Donald Kettler and the other Catholic bishops of Minnesota, spending a “day on the hill” March 5 with Gov. Mark Dayton and sta...
Continue reading…Affordable housing in interest of common good
This year, the Minnesota Catholic Conference has joined other organizations in supporting the Homes for All agenda currently before the M...
Continue reading…Transgender persons, human dignity and our response
This past summer, Time Magazine had a cover story called “The Next Civil Rights Revolution,” chronicling the movement to create legal man...
Continue reading…MCC Letter of Support for the Women’s Economic Security Act
SF 2050April 22, 2014 Dear Legislator:The Minnesota Catholic Conference (MCC), the public policy voice of the Catholic Church in Minnesot...
Continue reading…‘Wombs for rent’ industry now legal in Minnesota?
Without any significant consideration, the Minnesota Legislature is poised to create a commercial surrogacy business that would essential...
Continue reading…Written Testimony of Ms. Kathryn Mollen, Policy and Outreach Coordinator, on Women’s Economic Security Act
HF 2371, HF 2259, HF 2461March 20, 2014 Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee:My name is Kathryn Mollen, and I am the Policy and Outr...
Continue reading…Written Testimony of Mr. Jason Adkins, Executive Director on HF 2106
HF 2106House Tax Committee, February 25, 2014 Chair Lenczewski and Members of the Committee: The Minnesota Catholic Conference (MCC), the...
Continue reading…The Catholic Spirit: 'Blowing the dynamite' of the Catholic Church
In the 1930s, during a time of economic depression and geopolitical upheaval and uncertainty, Catholic Worker movement co-founder Peter M...
Continue reading…National Catholic Register: Marriage Redefined: 'Monogamish,' 'Throuple' and 'Wedlease'
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The latest proposal for redefining marriage just surfaced in The Washington Post, with an op-ed suggesting that 21st-c...
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