Pope Francis said “superficial” marriage preparation programs leave many couples at risk of having invalid marriages or unprepared to cope with the struggles that arise in every marriage.
Marriage
Posted inFaith, Last Take
Catholics: Stop spending an unholy amount on weddings
The joy of marriage is getting overshadowed by the pressure for increasingly expensive and elaborate weddings. Parish priest could gently remind couples that it does not have to be this way.
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Podcast: Life as a married Catholic priest — and why most preaching is terrible
Father Joshua Whitfield on his vocation as a husband, father and priest, and why most Catholic homilies are just plain awful.
Posted inFaith, Lent Reflections
Marriage is a master class in forgiveness
A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent, by Valerie Schultz
Posted inFaith, Podcasts
Catholic marriage prep doesn’t have to be terrible
Paul and Maureen Moses run a weekend retreat that fulfills the infamous “marriage prep” part of getting married in the Catholic Church. And it’s wonderful.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
I need an annulment to get my second marriage blessed by the church — even though I feel it already is
The truth is that there was nothing wrong with my first wife when we got married. And there was nothing wrong with me. I don’t need to offer up witnesses, and my privacy, to prove otherwise.
Posted inFaith, Features
The painful, grace-filled and (hopefully) healing process of seeking an annulment
What does the church really teach about this widely misunderstood process, and how does it play out in the lives of ordinary Catholics?
Posted inFaith, Speeches
Pope Francis: Never go to bed angry at your spouse (the example of Mary and Joseph can help)
“We fought. My God, I said bad words. I said awful things. But now, to finish the day, I must make peace”. You know why? Because the cold war the next day is very dangerous.
Posted inFaith, The Good Word
Marriage doesn’t have a monopoly on love. But it does show that we are made for love.
The list of failures and disappointments in marriage is long, but just as our sins cannot cancel the goodness God gave us, marriage remains a singular channel of God’s grace.
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Sohrab Ahmari makes the case for traditionalist Catholicism
There is much within Sohrab Ahmari’s new book that can and should speak to all Catholics, traditionalist or otherwise. More troubling from a Catholic perspective are Ahmari’s chapters on politics and on sex.