Our Catholic schools exist to help young people attain holiness in their lives, that is, to become saints.

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

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

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

We believe that marriage, by its very definition, can exist only between a man and a woman. Moreover, study after study - not to mention common sense - show that children fare better in life when raised in a home with a loving father and mother in a stable, committed relationship.

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.

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.