A conversation with Stina Kielsmeier-Cook on her memoir ‘Blessed Are the Nones: Mixed-Faith Marriage and My Search for Spiritual Community’
Marriage
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Most Catholics don’t use Natural Family Planning. Can better marriage prep change that?
Natural Family Planning is too important to be relegated to marriage preparation class, writes Ellen Holloway of the Charting Toward Intimacy podcast. We need to talk about it early and often.
Posted inFaith, News
This year, World Marriage Day will be celebrated on Valentine’s Day
This year, World Marriage Day, observed annually on the second Sunday of February, will be celebrated Feb. 14, which also is the feast of St. Valentine and which since the eighth century has been a celebration of love and affection.
Posted inExplainer, Faith
Explainer: What is an annulment? (And why does Pope Francis want to make it easier to get one?)
No matter how many times you hear it described thus—jokingly or not—an annulment is not just “Catholic divorce.” Church teaching is not that the marriage in question failed, but that the marriage never existed in a sacramental sense.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Statistics illustrate progress in marriage tribunal reforms
Catholic bishops and diocesan tribunals are making steady progress in implementing Pope Francis’ reforms to make the annulment process quicker, but it is taking longer to achieve the pope’s goal of making the process less expensive for couples.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
USCCB’s 2020 Natural Family Planning Awareness Week slated for July 19-25
In its observance of Natural Family Planning Awareness Week, the USCCB is launching a campaign to celebrate “God’s design for married love and the gift of life.”
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Catholic psychologist calls domestic violence ‘pandemic within a pandemic’
A Catholic psychologist has called the increasing rates of domestic violence during the pandemic a “pandemic within a pandemic.”
Posted inArts & Culture, Books
Review: Jia Tolentino on the realities of life
In a collection of nine essays, Jia Tolentino writes about a range of topics, including the advent of our internet culture, the modern wedding industry, megachurch evangelical Christianity, market-driven feminism and college rape culture.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
Keeping your marriage vows under coronavirus quarantine
On the other side of the pandemic, we may see “corona babies” and “corona divorces.” May we also see the best in each other as we live our vows in the time of quarantine.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
John Mulaney, my Irish twin who wasn’t to be
Each of us imagines we have “My Person.” I long thought mine was comedian John Mulaney.