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Marriage & Family

March 4, 2024

America’s Flight From Marriage Laid Bare by New Study, by Charles Collins

By Charles Collins, Catholic Herald - A new study claims one-in-three young adults in the United States will never marry... Writing for the Institute for Family Studies (IFS), Lyman Stone said these are close to the lowest levels ever observed for marriage rates... “Many commentators will blame these declines on the increased delay in marriage. While there’s some truth to this, the situation is extreme at higher ages, too,” he wrote...
March 2, 2024

What is the Catholic Church’s Position on IVF? by Peter Pinedo

By Peter Pinedo, Catholic News Agency - Since the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that embryos created through in vitro fertilization (IVF) are human children, debate over fertility treatment has erupted anew... Here’s everything you need to know... What is IVF?... IVF is a medical procedure that fuses sperm and egg in a lab environment to conceive a child outside of the sexual act. The live embryo is then later implanted into a uterus to continue developing until birth... According to the Mayo Clinic, IVF is typically used as a “treatment for infertility” that “also can be used to prevent passing on genetic problems to a child.”
March 2, 2024

Christians, You Have Been Warned. The States are Coming for Your Children, by Chuck Mason

By Chuck Mason, The Stream - A Catholic couple’s fight with Indiana Child Services to raise their “transgender” son according to their faith provides a shot across the bow to all Christian parents — if a child’s gender preference is not accepted, Child Protective Services (CPS) will take the child away... Fox News reported Indiana CPS removed a child from his Catholic parents because they wouldn’t use his chosen name or pronouns that reflected his chosen gender orientation. CPS relocated the male child, who identifies as female, to a “gender-affirming” foster home after the child reported his parents to the authorities. ...
March 1, 2024

Is Catholic Feminism Working? by Carrie Gress

By Carrie Gress, The Catholic Thing - The idea that Catholics must embrace feminism to engage non-Catholic women has been repeated so frequently that it’s simply accepted as a truism. But is it actually working? ... Before answering that question, let’s take a close look at the work of St. John Paul II. He is generally invoked as the reason why we must have a Catholic feminism. As pope, John Paul was clearly interested in upholding the dignity of every woman. His 1988 Apostolic Letter, Mulieris Dignitatem ....

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