Tag: divorce

A pastoral look at whether divorced and remarried Catholics without an annulment can still go to heaven, and how the Church guides people with compassion.

You recognized that being treated poorly all the time isn’t what marriage is supposed to look like, you recognized that there are worse things than being alone.

Two weeks ago I asked readers to define the word “love,” which I contend is the correct starting place for unpacking the real issue behind the Supreme Court's June 26 decision to legalize gay marriage.

There are a handful circumstances in which a marriage’s a death is indisputable: emotional and physical abuse are likely the foremost example

Two sentences are all it took to show me how to communicate effectively. Last month I sat in the kitchen of my daughter's home as she and my son-in-law had a brief conversation about how an unruly child had been dealt with.

She had bottled her fears for so long that giving them life by naming or sharing them felt like a betrayal. Not just a betrayal to herself, her kids and her marriage, but more so to her hopes and dreams.

An honest, non-biased reader, cannot deny the obvious continuation of the prohibition of homosexuality as practiced in the Old and New Testaments.