Matrimony

I tell my son he must obey the Church’s laws concerning marriage. But he will do it his own way, I guess. His eyes turn steely when I start to cry. That’s his Army training. Emotions shut him down. All my kids heard the story of how…

As a convert to Catholicism, the Church’s teaching on birth control has been — by far — the hardest one for me to accept. Sounds funny coming from someone with seven kids, right? But it’s true. I’ve literally struggled to accept the…

Years ago, if you told Catholic author and blogger Leila Miller you were getting a divorce, she may have told you how sorry she was, and that would be that. But today she’d do everything in her power to help save your marriage. That’s…

One out of three Catholic marriages ends in divorce. This, according to a study by Georgetown University’s Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA), is a lower rate than the general population, but it’s still nothing to brag…