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Marriage
August 2012
August 20, 2012
When it is performed by this fellow, "Chaplain Bill," who operates a service he calls...
August 16, 2012
Well, now, this is different: The “pregnant man” may soon be a male single mother....
August 13, 2012
That's the eye-catching headline of the latest blog post by one of Patheos' newest writers,...
July 2012
July 26, 2012
An interesting tidbit, from CNS: A new Catholic-run Kansas public awareness campaign to promote healthy...
June 2012
June 30, 2012
While one Hollywood Catholic gets hitched, another gets ditched. Katie Holmes and Tom Cruise were...
June 11, 2012
Somehow, I missed this news when it broke last month: Almost everyone stood when the...
June 03, 2012
Details: Vice President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley married a Pennsylvania doctor at a ceremony in...
May 2012
May 30, 2012
This is either a) adorable, b) bizarre or c) inspired. Take your pick. I'm surprised...
May 21, 2012
Because it turns out that social networking is increasingly breaking up marriages: More than a...
May 15, 2012
Elizabeth Scalia -- briefly picking up her pen while still on hiatus from her cell...
May 06, 2012
Some provocative insight on the state of marriage from the church in Australia: Women should...
May 02, 2012
From John Allen: A Rome conference in late April hinted that the Vatican may be...
March 2012
March 10, 2012
That seems to be the way things are going, with online ministry services providing more...
February 2012
February 17, 2012
This should do your heart good: Turning 100 is a significant milestone on its own,...
December 2011
December 30, 2011
You might consider this sweet story the flipside to that Italian divorce saga. Details: A...
December 29, 2011
Would counseling have helped? Better pre-Cana? Details: The Italian man, identified by lawyers in the...
December 27, 2011
And it can create quite a few complications. From the Washington Post: A cultural shift...
December 07, 2011
Remember the good old days before Vatican II, when people took sacraments seriously and priests...
October 2011
October 27, 2011
You never know when you're gonna get hit by an unexpected storm. Sand, or otherwise....
September 2011
September 22, 2011
If anyone wonders what it means to be married and in love after decades together,...
August 2011
August 26, 2011
Why is that? Some details: While the Bible Belt is known for its devotion to...
August 21, 2011
You might consider this the flip side of the story I posted yesterday, courtesy Fr....
August 16, 2011
And that's becoming even more common than divorce, according to this new report: The number...
August 16, 2011
He made that statement during an interview with a local newspaper yesterday: Many children from...
August 11, 2011
You're looking at it. Internet use -- and misuse -- is straining marriages more than...
August 10, 2011
How's this for a wedding-a-palooza, from Catholic San Francisco: St. Thomas More Parish in San...
July 2011
July 31, 2011
The latest trend in romantic commitment evidently involves even less commitment than it used to....
July 18, 2011
As I noted yesterday, I spent the weekend down south, for a family wedding in...
July 12, 2011
In New York, it seems, no one. With the law changing on same sex marriage,...
July 01, 2011
A good dissection of marriage can be found right here by Dick Houck, of the...
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