US passports will no longer contain the words “mother” and “father”, the State Department has said. They are to be replaced with gender neutral terminology. “The words in the old form were ‘mother’ and ‘father,’” said Brenda Sprague, deputy assistant Secretary of State for Passport Services. “They are now ‘parent one’ and ‘parent two.’” Pro-family...
Quebec’s publicly funded nurseries run by faith groups have been instructed not to teach children anything about the religion they profess by the province’s Family Minister, Yolande James. The nurseries, known as day-care centres, have been told to eliminate all activities that involve the “transmission of faith” by June. The ban on “teaching a belief,...
A leading Scottish expert has warned of a “fundamental loss of respect” for parents, teachers and the values “previously instilled by the Church”. Professor Tommy MacKay of Strathclyde University, whose opinions have helped shape some of Scotland’s approaches to education said that UK society was “losing its old anchor points” and that Britain was sitting “on an unexploded time...
Apple has confirmed a ban on The Manhattan Declaration, which affirms the right to life, religious freedom and traditional marriage. Apple has branded the statement, signed by numerous Christian leaders including Archbishop Timothy Dolan of New York, as “ objectionable and potentially harmful to others”. The company rejected a bid to have an iPhone app...
The right of parents to choose the type of education they wish for children “is a fundamental right”, Archbishop Diarmuid Martin (pictured) has said. Speaking at the launch of “Share the Good News”, the new National Directory for Catechesis in Ireland, Dr Martin said that this right was “not an invention of the Catholic Church...
The Cabinet are set to consider the wording of a children’s rights amendment agreed between the office of the Minister of State for Children, Barry Andrews (pictured), and Attorney General Paul Gallagher. According to a report in the Irish Times, Mr Andrews said yesterday the wording was agreed in the run-up to Christmas. He added...
Cardinal George Pell has said he is open to a meeting with campaigners for same-sex marriage on condition that the campaigners cease condemning all opposition to same-sex marriage as ‘homophobic’. Gay rights campaigners regularly label all opposition to same-sex marriage as prejudiced, irrational or bigoted. According to The Australian newspaper, Australian Marriage Equality wrote to...
After decades of gender equality campaigning many women now find it hard to admit that they would rather be housewife than have a successful career of their own, according to Dr Catherine Hakim of the London School of Economics. In addition, the number of women who “marry up” has doubled since the 1940s indicating that...
Couples contemplating divorce could be required to “walk through” the impact their break-up would have on their children under a radical plan being considered by ministers in the UK. The UK has one of the highest divorce rates in Europe and growing numbers of single parent families as more couples have children without getting married...
New research suggests that delaying your first sexual encounter leads to a more satisfying and stable relationship. According to a study conducted at Brigham Young University, couples who had sex the earliest , such as after the first date or within the first month of dating, had the worst relationship outcomes, . “What seems to...
