Promotion and Defense of Marriage

Featured

• News Release: USCCB Files Supreme Court Briefs Supporting DOMA, Proposition 8 (Jan. 29, 2013)

• New Website: Call to Prayer for Life, Marriage, and Religious Liberty - Find information and resources re: the bishops' nationwide movement to renew a culture of life, marriage, and religious liberty
  
  
• News Release: Bishops Urge Catholics to Pray for Life, Marriage, Religious Liberty (Dec. 6, 2012)
  
  
• Video: Archbishop Cordileone's Presentation to the Bishops at the November General Assembly (below)
  

Documents, Statements, and Letters

• Jan. 12, 2012: Ecumenical/Interreligious Letter: "Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together"
  
• Nov. 2, 2011: Letter from Bishop Cordileone to Senate Judiciary Committee re: DOMA
• Sept. 20, 2011: Public letter from Archbishop Dolan to President Obama re: DOMA
• Archbishop Broglio's statement on Archbishop Dolan's letter
• Q&A on Archbishop Dolan's DOMA letter

Catechetical Resources

• Made for Each Other: video and print resources about sexual difference and complementarity
  
• Made for Life: video and print resources about the good of children and the need for fathers and mothers
• Website: Marriage: Unique for a Reason
  
• Prayer for the Promotion and Defense of Marriage
• Handout: Marriage and Religious Liberty FAQs
• Article: "Catholics Care. Catholics Vote: Strengthening and Defending Marriage is a Matter of Justice"

Videos

• Archbishop Cordileone on Marriage and Faithful Citizenship
• Archbishop Cordileone's Presentation to the Bishops at the Spring 2012 General Assembly (below)