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Marriage, Divorce, & Annulments

A Map for the Christian Family-Man
March 2019Instead of frittering away his time, a young man needs to take charge of his livelihood and plan his own family-centered home economy.
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Humanae Vitae: A Manual for Better Sex?
October 2018Much popular Catholic literature on NFP is utilitarian, claiming that obeying Church teaching results in a happier, more exciting bedroom experience.
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From the Fringes: A Marital Blitz
April 2017The growing popularity of polygamy and "self-marriage" shows that the fringes aren't merely encroaching on the center, the fringes are the center.
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False Mercy & the Integrity of Marriage
May 2014Cardinal Burke, the Church's foremost expert on annulment, said the process is "essentially connected with the doctrinal truth" of the Church, and changes should be considered with great care.
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The German Question
April 2014On the question of how to accommodate second marriages in the Church, most of the key players in the debate, for now, happen to be German bishops and cardinals.
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There Goes the Village
November 2012Not long after the same-sex marriage battles have begun we are beginning to hear promotion of polygamy, three-parent laws, and even talk of legal incest.
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Man-Child in the Promised Land
September 2012Men have suffered from the 'single-mother revolution': A significant subculture of unattached fathers exhibits a notable lack of maturity and a retardation of genuine masculinity.
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The Wages of Motherhood
June 2012Viewed from the perspective of home and community, there's so much value attached to the work of stay-at-home mothers, that we've only just begun to count the cost of losing them to the workplace.
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The Future of Marriage in America
April 2012Perhaps the Church in America could take a lesson from Mexico, where the government does not recognize ecclesiastical marriages and Catholics must get married .
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Marriage on the Fringes -- For Now
September 2008Will the slippery slope lead us to a society that no longer looks askance at a woman who decides to marry herself, her mother, her sister, or the Statue of Liberty?
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Shall We "Privatize" Marriage & Everything Else?
October 2005If privatization is a good thing, what's wrong with privatizing marriage, homosexuality, abortion?
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Inspiration for (Uncommitted) Partners?
February 2002Good golly, we've been duped again by relationship politics.
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Berkeley Professor Wants More Catholics to Get Divorced
April 2001America magazine is unhappy with Catholic teaching on "remarriage."
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The Meaning of Marital Love
December 2000Review of Crossing the Threshold of Love: A New Vision of Marriage in the Light of John Paul II's Anthropology
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Unconditional Love — But Not for Your Spouse
November 2000When it comes to marriage, liberals throw all that out the window.
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The Unbuckled Bible Belt?
November 2000Why do the Baptists have the highest rate of divorce?
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When the Wedding Bell Rings Marriage's Knell
February 2000Invent your own ceremony, write your own vows, and ordain your own minister.
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‘Til Annulment Do Us Part?
June 1999Reviews of One Hundred Answers to Your Questions on Annulments... What God Has Joined Together: The Annulment Crisis in America
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Preparing Young People for Marital Fidelity
March 1999The myth of romance takes place in the immediate, the now; what is paramount is the special feeling, not the other person.
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The Christian View of Sex
January 1998Men and women today are tired of unfaithfulness, tired of shallow and brief relationships. They crave something more meaningful and reliable.
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Gracious Sensibility, Ruthless Self-Examination
January-February 1987Review of Fleeing the Whore of Babylon by James J. Thompson Jr.
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Reflections on Marriage After Vatican II
May 1986It is because of this intimate connection between the Eucharist and the remarried person’s prior marriage, that reception of the Eucharist must be refused.
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