An American parish music director has been fired from his role in a parish in the Diocese of Arlington because he entered into a civil same-sex marriage. Mike McMahon was a former director of the National Association of Pastoral Musicians. This is the national body for liturgical music leaders in the Catholic Church in the Read more
Posts Tagged ‘Same-sex marriage’
Africans could die if English church accepts gay marriage, warns Welby
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
African Christians will be killed if the Church of England accepts gay marriage, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has suggested. Speaking on a phone in at UK radio station LBC, Archbishop Justin Welby cited first hand experience of this. He said he had stood by a mass grave in Nigeria of 330 Christians who Read more
Contracts list banned acts for teachers in US Catholic schools
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014
Teachers at many Catholic schools in two United States dioceses are facing contracts that list violations of Church teaching that could get them fired. In the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in Ohio, such behaviours include abortion, artificial insemination and “homosexual lifestyles”. Teachers have long been required to act in accordance with Church’s teachings, but spelling out Read more
World Vision flip-flops on same-sex marriage for employees
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014
Christian relief organisation World Vision has changed its position on same-sex marriage twice within days in the United States. On March 24, it announced it would no longer define marriage as between a man and a woman in its employee conduct manual in the US. But it reversed that stand soon afterwards and said it Read more
Catholic MPs reject bishop’s Communion ban call over marriage vote
Tuesday, March 25th, 2014
Several Catholic MPs in England have disagreed with a bishop who said politicians who voted for same-sex marriage should be denied Communion. The Bishop of Portsmouth, Bishop Philip Egan, said denial of Communion is an act of mercy. This is with the hope that individuals can be brought back into full communion with the Church. Read more
Catholics at odds with some Church teaching
Friday, February 14th, 2014
As Pope Francis reaches out to Catholics across the globe to re-energise the Catholic faith, the vast majority of Catholics, world-wide, disagree with Church teaching about contraception, divorce and abortion, but agree with traditional marriage. These are some of the findings of a world-wide poll commissioned in 12 countries, the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Brazil, Read more
5 churches form coalition of faith to defend marriage
Friday, February 14th, 2014
Mormons, Catholics, Baptists, Lutherans and Evangelicals joined together, February 10, in a ‘coalition of faith’ to defend traditional marriage, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. The coalition is calling on the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold bans on same-sex marriage in Utah and Oklahoma, saying marriage is “indispensable to social welfare and our Read more
Over 350 same-sex marriages since law change
Friday, February 7th, 2014As the number of same-sex marriages continues to flourish following last year’s law reform, only a handful of couples are opting for the other legally recognised form of partnership, civil unions. But one of those responsible for legalising civil unions in 2005, Labour Party general secretary Tim Barnett, believes they still have an important place Read more
NZ Anglican same sex marriage decision ‘independent’ of UK report
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013The Anglican Church in New Zealand says its decision on whether to bless same-sex marriages is unlikely to be affected by a Church of England report. The British report has recommended the Church lift its ban, but not force individual clergy to offer public services. A commission set up by New Zealand’s Anglican Church to Read more
US Cardinal Dolan says Catholic Church ‘caricatured as anti-gay’
Tuesday, December 3rd, 2013
New York Archbishop Timothy Dolan said the Roman Catholic Church is losing the fight against gay marriage legislation because the Church has been “caricatured as anti-gay.” Dolan talked about gay marriage and the US Affordable Care Act with David Gregory on NBC’s “Meet the Press” in an interview. “Regardless of the church teachings, do you Read more