Marriage & Family

Many conservative House Democrats threatened to withhold support for the president's health care reforms if the measure called for spending federal dollars on abortions.

Federal funds for abortions stir activism

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/20/2010

States using the new health care laws to fund abortions - in spite of the Obama's administration's attempts to cease the practice, is being eagerly snatched up by pro-life forces who intend to use the issue in the upcoming midterm elections. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Health and Human ...

Amber Nicklas was snatched when her foster parents took her for a court-arranged meeting with her mother at a Chuck E. Cheese restaurant seven years ago.

Mystery deepens around missing girl found 7 years later

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/16/2010

A girl who was abducted from a California restaurant at the age of 13 months has been found safe, sound and happy - speaking Romanian. Now seven years old, her time away from her family is the subject of much mystery and inquiry . LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - Little Amber Nicklas was found ...

A New Mexico health insurance program, The New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool (NMNIP) has dropped elective abortion from its list of covered procedures.

New Mexico insurance company drops abortion

By Catholic Online • Catholic Online • 7/16/2010

A New Mexico health insurance program, The New Mexico Medical Insurance Pool (NMNIP) has dropped elective abortion from its list of covered procedures. The company had been the subject of media inquiry and criticism by pro-life groups as the procedures had been covered by federal funds. LOS ...

Natural Procreative Technology: these three words have given my heart reason to hope again.

The Cross of Infertility: NaPro Technology Brings Hope

By Angela Holmes • Catholic Online • 7/10/2010

Four babies and over two years gone... I felt frustrated and desperate that God had given us this desire to be open to new life, and yet not allow us to bring that new life home in our arms. We were running out of options as my husband and I knew that we would continue to follow the Catholic ...

Opinion: Responding to Record child death from hyperthermia

By Billy Atwell • Catholic Online • 7/2/2010

Children are dying all over the United States from hyperthermia as a result of being left in a hot car. Interestingly, many of these parents are completely unaware that their child is even in the vehicle. In some cases prosecutors are bringing charges against the parents in an attempt ...

Pew does indicate that a growing percentage of Americans are concerned about how women not having children will impact society.

Pew Report: Tick, Tock: More U.S. Women Running Out Biological Clock for Childbearing

By Peter J. Smith • LifeSiteNews • 6/30/2010

Pew reports that scholars say that some factors involved may be that social encouragement for women to bear children has lessened, contraception has increased, improved career goals have more women putting off childbearing, and society no longer views having children as part of a fulfilling life. ...

The ad hoc committee responsible for the creation of this video series hopes that it will 'assist priests, deacons, catechists, and teachers in their important work of proclaiming and teaching the true meaning of marriage as the union of one man and one woman'.

'Made for Each Other': US Bishops Defend Marriage in New Teaching Series

By Genevieve Pollock • Zenit News Agency • 6/30/2010

Weaving together music, video clips of a potter and nature scenes, Scripture passages, and the testimony of a young husband and wife who speak about what marriage is really like, the film portrays spousal love in an attractive and reachable way. Bishops equip individuals, educators, ministers ...

According to a new study, there were 1.9 million childless women ages 40 to 44 in 2008, compared with nearly 580,000 in 1976.

U.S. women without children growing in number

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 6/25/2010

A new study has found that at least one woman in five in the United States has never had children. Researchers say the figures were a marked increase over the previous decades. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The Pew Research Center says that approximately 18 percent of American women in 2008 ...

The Department of Education wants to ban both cyber bullying and sexting in New York City's public schools at all times -- even outside of school hours.

New York High Schools crack down on 'sexting'

By Greg Goodsell • Catholic Online • 6/25/2010

"Sexting," the sending of sexually explicit text messages is common among teenagers, and a New York high school is pledging to do something about it. Under new rules, students can now face up to 90 days suspension for sending inappropriate messages. LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The ...

Scripture Reflection: To Be Adopted and To Adopt

By Deal W. Hudson, Ph.D • Inside Catholic • 6/22/2010

This willingness of parents to sacrifice everything for their children is, of course, found par excellence in the Heavenly Father. Yet Scripture -- and Paul's writings particularly -- shows that love as expressed through the death of the Son is described as an act of adoption. When "the Spirit of ...