Denver, Colo., Jan 18, 2012 / 06:14 am (CNA).- Colorado’s proposed civil unions bill is “just a stepping stone to the legalization of same-sex marriage,” the head of the Colorado Catholic Conference has warned.

“In every state where legislators or lawmakers have pushed civil unions, there has then been a push for the recognition of same-sex marriage,” conference executive director Jennifer Kraska told CNA on Jan. 17.  Read More
 

Elkton, Md., Jan 4, 2012 / 02:34 am (CNA).- Two doctors running a secret abortion clinic in Maryland are being charged with murder under the state’s fetal homicide law for aborting babies that could have survived outside the womb. Read More

Vatican City, Jan 4, 2012 / 02:21 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The joy of the Christmas season is the unparalleled union of God and man, said Pope Benedict XVI at the first general audience for 2012. "Humanity’s dream which began in the Garden of Eden - we want to be like God - is realized in an unexpected way, not through the greatness of man, who cannot make himself God, but through the humility of God who came down among us in his humility, raising us to the true greatness of his being," the Pope said to the 7,000 people in the Vatican’s Paul VI Hall on Jan. 4. Read More 　

Vatican City, Jan 2, 2012 / 03:08 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- Pope Benedict XVI marked 2012's Solemnity of Mary the Mother of God with a proclamation of the peace that is found in her son Jesus Christ. Read More

Washington D.C., Dec 1, 2011 / 10:31 am (CNA).- Leaders at a Nov. 30 conference in Washington, D.C. argued that tax credits for education benefit not only the students involved but the entire community.

Catholic schools have a "profound effect" on society as a whole through their "faith perspective," said Cardinal Donald W. Wuerl of Washington, D.C.

He underscored that Catholic education serves as "an instrument" that will help students respond to the challenges they will face in life. Read More