In a Catholic world where debates over clerical celibacy have flared from Brazil to the Vatican, Joshua Whitfield is that rarest of things: A married Catholic priest.
Marriage
Posted inFaith, Features
Natural Family Planning can be hard and expensive to use. Can new tech help?
Catholic groups offer high-tech, effective options for couples seeking to use fertility awareness based methods of family planning. But first they need more access to them.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
When my husband filed for divorce, I was shamed for staying faithful to our vows
Some say I have brought suffering on myself by standing up for the promises I made at the altar. In a sense that is true. But the alternative would have been to betray myself.
Posted inFaith, Features
How one ministry helps families live the sacrament of marriage in community
Its multifaceted approach aims to welcome couples into the community, enrich their relationships and help them grow together in the faith.
Posted inDispatches, Politics & Society
Marriage is thriving—but only among college graduates
Nearly two-thirds of college graduates are married, writes Robert David Sullivan, compared with only about half of those who have not gone beyond high school.
Posted inFaith, Faith in Focus
My wife left me after 30 years of marriage. Jesuit spirituality helps me love her now.
I pray we are merely on temporarily divergent, independent journeys to our best personal selves so that, someday, we can meet again downstream in conjoined bliss.
Posted inArts & Culture, Film
New documentary, ‘The Francis Impact,’ looks beyond the pope to the people he serves
The key, the filmmakers say, was to shift the spotlight off of Francis onto ordinary people who have been impacted by him.
Posted inFaith, News
Pope Francis asks Italian bishops finally to implement marriage tribunal reforms
Pope Francis told the bishops of Italy that he was disappointed that so many of their dioceses had yet to implement the reforms he ordered to make the marriage annulment process quicker, more pastoral and less expensive.
Posted inNews, Politics & Society
Bishops say ’no-fault’ divorce in U.K. undermines marriage from outset
The introduction of “no-fault” divorces in the United Kingdom will undermine marriages from the outset, said the Catholic bishops of England and Wales.
Posted inFaith, Interviews
When your boyfriend decides to become a priest
This is a story about two people who fell in love with each other and gave that love back to God in surrender.