Pages tagged "Marriage and Family"
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...
Continue reading…New same-sex ‘marriage’ legislation imperils religious liberty
On Aug. 1, the state of Minnesota will begin to legally recognize same-sex unions as “marriages.” The social, legal and cultural conseque...
Continue reading…Same-sex marriage: Why the French protest and Americans shrug
Minnesota and France redefined marriage in the same week, yet the differences in public reaction to this decision in both places could ha...
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