Marriage, Divorce, Annulments & the Assaults on Marriage

	James F. Csank A Failed Offensive September 2008
	New Oxford Notes Marriage on the Fringes -- For Now September 2008
	James F. Csank Blessed Are the Shack-Ups September 2007
	A. Patrick Schneider II Cohabitation: Ten Facts September 2007
	Melissa Scollard The Fruit of Contraception April 2007
	New Oxford Notes Shall We Privatize 'Marriage' & Everything Else? October 2005
	Leland D. Peterson Homosexuality & Same-Sex 'Marriage' January 2004
	New Oxford Notes Inspiration for (Uncommitted) Partners? February 2002
	Sheryl Temaat Shacking-Up: A "Divine Imperative"? January 2002
	Agnes Martin Letter to a Catholic Friend In an Invalid Marriage May 2001
	New Oxford Notes Berkeley Professor Wants More Catholics to Get Divorced April 2001
	Monica Migliorino Miller The Meaning of Marital Love December 2000
	New Oxford Notes Unconditional Love -- But Not for Your Spouse November 2000
	New Oxford Notes The Unbuckled Bible Belt? November 2000
	New Oxford Notes When the Wedding Bell Rings Marriage's Knell February 2000
	Nancy E. Smith 'Til Annulment Do Us Part? June 1999
	by Annie Moritz Hallowed or Hollow Marriage? September 1997
	Cecilia McGowan When "Open Marriage" Means Openness to Life October 1996

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Maryland
Workers at the National Shrine Grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes found $40,000 worth of rare coins on the grounds and later discovered the bags of money had only been left there for safekeeping under the Virgin's watchful eye.

Hong Kong
A Hong Kong student nicknamed the Chinese Warren Buffet has been accused of blackmailing a Catholic priest with intimate images, threatening to extort $800,000.

Maryland
Researchers at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, reporting initial findings in their look into causes of the Catholic church's 2002 sexual-abuse scandal, say they can't attribute it to gay priests.

California
Police arrested a 22-year-old Muslim man after he yelled, "Allah is power" and tore a crucifix from a customers's neck and scared others at a Bay area shopping center.

Washington DC
A Catholic coalition, citing several controversial grants to groups which opposed Church teaching, has called for reform of the U.S. bishops' Catholic Campaign for Human Development.

Tanzania
A United Nations court has acquitted a Catholic priest charged with genocide, murder, and extermination in Rwanda's 1994 genocide after the judge said prosecution failed to prove its case.

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