"The vision of the Vatican and the hierarchy is that the Catholic media should support and ... promote the positions taken by the hierarchy, " said Reese, who was removed from his position as editor of the Jesuit magazine America in 2005 after it published stories on topics including gay marriage.
Since then, Pope has adopted some socially conservative positions, including opposition to gay marriage and to public funding for abortions.
Specifically, NRB wants to ensure that religious expression, including views on gay marriage and abortion, is not classified as hate speech and blocked by private companies.
She disagreed with her husband on several issues including her support for gay marriage and opposition to the Iraq war.
Nine US states and the District of Columbia fully recognise gay marriage, including several states which legalised the unions through a popular vote in 2012.
Seventeen countries, provinces and states permit gay marriage, including such cutting-edge places as Portugal and Belgium, says Robert Wintemute, a lawyer at Kings College London who is representing the litigants.
As the backlash grew, opponents of gay and lesbian marriage, including many religious conservatives, moved quickly to put amendments on state ballots to short-circuit similar rulings from courts sympathetic to the argument that restricting marriage to opposite-sex couples was discriminatory.
But it was clear from the start of that argument in a packed courtroom that the justices, including some liberals who seemed open to gay marriage, had doubts about whether they should even be hearing the challenge to California's Proposition 8, the state's voter-approved gay marriage ban.
Other countries, such as Colombia, do not recognise gay marriage but do offer civil guarantees, including the right to draw a pension if one partner dies.
He also has weighed in on hot-button issues of late, including supporting North Carolina's constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, which voters passed earlier this year, and last month defending the president of the Chick-fil-A restaurant chain for his opposition to same-sex marriage.
But some religious groups, including Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Judaism, are in favour of gay marriage and are thought likely to apply to be allowed to stage ceremonies.
That ruling has had an impact on a number of campaigns, including the Senate race in Virginia, which is one of eight states with ballot initiatives this year banning gay marriage.
It may also have helped that various states - including the one that became vital in the presidential race, Ohio - asked residents to vote on banning gay marriage while they were at the polls.
Prominent Tory MPs including Environment Secretary Owen Paterson, Defence Secretary Philip Hammond and backbencher Stewart Jackson have said they cannot support gay marriage, and a number of MPs have signed the "Coalition for Marriage" petition opposing it.
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