201502.23
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February 23, 2015 – Gestational Surrogacy: a frontal assault on fundamental shared EU values

http://www.comece.eu/site/en/ourwork/pressreleases/2015/article/8633.html Gestational surrogacy is an issue of increasing preoccupation and concern in contemporary political and legal debate across the European Union. Against that background, the COMECE Working Group on Ethics in Research and Medicine has published an “Opinion on Gestational Surrogacy: the question of European and International Rules” , which is presented today, 23 February,…

201412.03
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December 3, 2014 – Foreign Language (Italian) Diritto Civile Contemporaneo

Il riconoscimento in Italia dei provvedimenti stranieri di “stepchild adoption” da parte del coniuge “same sex” del genitore biologico: il Tribunale per i Minorenni di Bologna solleva la questione di legittimità costituzionale degli artt. 35 e 36 della legge 184/1983 di Emanuele Bilotti Con ordinanza del 10 novembre 2014 il Tribunale per i Minorenni di…

201410.22
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October 22, 2014 – Beyond the Expansion Framework: How Same Sex Marriage Changes the Institutional Meaning of Marriage and Heterosexual Men’s Conception of Marriage

This article critically argues that “same sex marriage” does not expand the benefits of traditional marriage to everyone; rather, it fundamentally changes the meaning of marriage by making gender (sex) optional. In so doing, the already tenuous connection between sexuality, marriage, and procreation is further weakened. In particular, the argument is made that marriage always served as…

201406.22
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June 22, 2014 – Catholic Contributions and Critiques of Human Rights Law within European Institutions

This article examines European institutions and their developing policies from a Catholic perspective. It explores how different EU institutions work and are justified as “democratic.”  In particular, the article focuses on a dangerous development within EU institutions towards gender ideology, an essentially Marxist ideology. It also discusses non-negotiable principles that Catholic are bound in conscience to uphold, and how…