Turns out, like having a kid or climbing Mount Everest or doing anything worth doing, you can’t sorta get married.
Marriage
Posted inArts & Culture, Ideas
What can Beyoncé and Pope Francis teach us about love?
Beyoncé’s ‘Lemonade’ and ‘Amoris Laetitia’ were released a year ago. Both offer an important—often fundamentally different—look into love and marriage.
Posted inFaith, Features
Zombie Catholics vs. French Secularism
The rise of “zombie Catholics” in French politics may indicate a renewed energy in the French church.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I knew I couldn’t defy my wife’s Alzheimer’s. I learned to embrace it instead.
I have been told, “You cannot be both caretaker and husband.” This bothers me: How can I not be both caretaker and husband to Gail?
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Top Vatican Legal Expert: Pope Francis opens the door to Communion for Catholics in irregular marriages
“Amoris Laetitia” addresses the reality of Catholics in “non-legitimate unions” and opens the possibility for them to receive the Eucharist under certain conditions.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Vatican official explains how desire to change could allow access to the Eucharist
The intention to change “is exactly the theological element that allows absolution and access to the Eucharist as long as there is the impossibility of immediately changing the situation of sin.”
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Should friendships be taken as seriously as marriages?
On this week’s podcast, America’s contributing writer Eve Tushnet joins hosts Matt Malone, S.J., and Kerry Weber. Following the publication of her feature article on the subject, Tushnet discusses the value of relationships that don’t necessarily fall into traditional categories like marriage and religious life. Eric Sundrup, S.J. joins to offer an additional perspective. When asked about […]
Posted inFaith, Features
Beyond religious life and marriage: A look at friendship as vocation
How ancient traditions have inspired modern-day Christians to forge new bonds of commitment.
Posted inFaith
Pope Francis still hasn’t responded to the dubia. He has good reason not to.
The dubia stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of ‘Amoris Laetitia’ and the renewal that began with Vatican II.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
The church should not strive for “false clarity,” says Australian archbishop
The pope is “bringing out into the very public setting of the papacy what any pastor does in his parish or diocese.”