The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

In places where marriage's core meaning has been altered through legal action, officials are beginning to target for punishment those believers and churches that refuse to adapt.

The reality of marriage as the union of a mother and a father is grounded in our very biology.

Care for life and physical health, with due regard for the needs of others and the common good, is concomitant with respect for human dignity.

Certainly our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters need to be supported in living out their call to holiness.

Respect for the dignity of the human person is the foundational principle of any just society. From a Catholic perspective, it also forms the foundation of all of our Church's social teachings.