UMC Congregation Votes to Withhold Marriage Rite Until Gay Marriage is Law
I once was a United Methodist. After my conversion experience, I had no idea what to do next. No one “led” me to Jesus except Jesus Himself. So, I waited around for a month, waiting for this Being who...
View ArticleUSCCB: Tomorrow is a Day of Fasting and Prayer for Marriage and Religious...
Bride and groom, praying before their wedding. I think we’ve exhausted the emotional discussion about Tuesday’s Supreme Court decision. Now is a good time to turn to prayer. Propitiously, it is still...
View ArticleThe Secret’s Out: Devout Catholic Husbands and Wives Have the Best Sex
If you want great sex, trying marrying for love and committing yourself this person for life. It also helps if you worship the God Who made you in a Catholic Church every week. That’s the upshot of a...
View ArticleThe One Person
Everybody, it seems, is writing about what not to do if you want to stay married. Everything I’ve read so far, which you can find here, here and here, is good advice. But is staying married a matter of...
View ArticleShacking Up, Gay Marriage and Now Wed Leases: Is Marriage as the Larger...
Shacking up, gay marriage and now wed leases. Given all this, I’m inclined to say as so many people do these days Why bother? A reader sent me a copy of the Washington Post opinion piece excerpted...
View ArticleSisters of Life
The Sisters of Life are a new order. Their charism is a response to the evils of our times. I can think of no work more needed than theirs.
View ArticleDivorce, Catholic Divorce and Following Christ as Counter-Cultural Living
Divorce is one of the plagues of modern America. It is the root cause of much of the misery of our modern life. The damage it does to our children and their children and their children’s children is...
View ArticleVatican Says No to Communion for Divorced and Remarrieds
Rumors aside, it appears that Pope Francis is not going to overturn the 2,000-year-old Church teaching on the sanctity of Holy Matrimony. The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,...
View ArticleThree Cardinals — and I Don’t Mean Baseball Players — and Their Grand Slam of...
I’m late to the party. But then, I often am. It takes me a while to think through certain events. There are also times when it takes me a while to care about certain events. The three cardinals —...
View ArticleThe Hard Teachings: Are You Going to Leave Me Too?
If you do not eat of my flesh and drink of my blood, you will no have life within you. Jesus Christ The Eucharist was a scandal. Many of Jesus’ followers left Him when He explicitly told them I am...
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