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Where there's a Will, there's a way

By Regis Flaherty. Movie star's take on divorce refreshing as 70 percent of Americans say it is morally acceptable

When the vows break

Marital infidelity can be devastating to a couple's relationship, but the marriage can be rebuilt and survive if both partners are willing to work at it.

Wedding-bell blues

The editorial for the week of May 20, 2007, from OSV Newsweekly.

Unity's the Reason, Early Intervention

Priestalk by Msgr. William Belford

Turning a Problem Around

Editor's Opinion

Truly holy matrimony

By Mark Sullivan. These married couples showed extraordinary faith in ordinary life

Traditional Marriage Not Suddenly Under Attack

Our people face many problems in terms of economics and their responsibilities of parenting.

The Losses, the Gains

Editor's Opinion by Msgr. Owen F. Campion. Broken marriages, poor catechetics contribute to drifting Catholics

The Kennedy-Rauch annulment that never was

This article free for all visitors. Despite headlines that claimed the Vatican 'reversed' its decision, the couple's marriage wasn't annulled in 1996

The Goal of Premarital Chastity: Marital Chastity

By Basil Cole, O.P. The reasonable control over the sexual sphere called chastity is essential for growth in the other virtues.

The Georgia Martyrs

Heroic witnesses to the sanctity of marriage

The Church and the marriage 'business'

Some say the Church risks being forced by law to recognize same-sex unions unless it relinquishes the power to witness civil marriages.

TCA Life

TCA Life

TCA Life

By Father Francis Hoffman, J.C.D. The Catholic answer to your questions about sacraments, liturgy, traditions, canon law and faith in everyday life.

So many spiritualities

By Msgr. M. Francis Mannion. Church's diverse traditions are 'refractions of the one pure light of the Holy Spirit'

Should couples get bishop's permission to separate?

By Emily Stimpson. Canon law is in place for such decrees, but expert doubts likelihood of enforcement

Secrets of solid, lasting unions

Couples agree that tolerance, perseverance and God's help are essentials

Same-sex marriage: a trend to sweep the nation?

By Gerald Korson. Despite losses, the fight for traditional matrimony still eclipses homosexual unions

Praying for Our Absent Brethren

Reflections of a former priest on his marriage, reconversion and return to the Faith, with an exhortation to pray for others in similar circumstances.

Our Takes

Our Takes: Government, Married life, Nomenclature

October Homily: It's Not Easy, But Worth It

October 8, 2006, homily by Father Edward F. Steiner.

No strings attached

"Pastoral Answers" columnist Msgr. M. Francis Mannion discusses the issue of cohabitation and the effects on a future marriage.

No special treatment

Princess Caroline had to petition Vatican for a nullity of marriage because of Church law

Movie night for two

By Teresa Tomeo. Rekindle your marriage this Valentine's Day with the help of Christian movie 'Fireproof'

Movie night for two

Teresa Tomeo Rekindle your marriage this Valentine's Day with the help of Christian movie 'Fireproof'

Mocking marriage

By Teresa Tomeo. New report finds that most non-married sex is portrayed during television's 'family hour'

Mending marriage

This editorial column has free access for all visitors. Couples themselves, with the support of communities, including the parish, must do the heavy lifting.

Massachusetts tackles gay marriage again

Massachusetts tackles gay marriage again; courts OK ban in two states

Married and baptized

By Msgr. M. Francis Mannion. A second marriage ceremony isn't needed after Catholic baptism if the first was valid

Marriage survival guide

By Mary DeTurris Poust and Dennis Poust. How to strengthen your unions in key areas of finances, intimacy, prayer and family life

Marriage law should be clearer with commentary

A nullity trial is meant to be thorough so that the marriage bond will be protected -- it is not a "Catholic divorce."

Marriage as a casualty of war

For the military men and women deployed in a combat zone, time away is a test of spousal bonds, family ties and love for each other

Letters to the Editor

Real marriage for Arthur and Catherine.

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the Editor for May 3, 2009

In marriage, three's a crowd

Our salient comments on a Sioux Indian abortion law, mobile spirituality for Catholics on the go and Polygamy

In Focus: Wedding Daze

By Mike Sullivan. With divorce and cohabitation increasing and the number of Catholic marriages dropping altogether, it's time for a 'revolution' that starts with you

In Focus: Porn fails to fulfill relationship needs

This week's featured articles cover the topic of pornography and how the explicit material has leaked out of the shadows and into the mainstream.

In Focus: Knotty questions

As wedding season gears up, OSV provides the answers to readers' questions about the sacrament of matrimony

How to redefine failure as success

Our Takes. The new norm peddled in the media is truly happy people don't get married or have children.

How 'no-fault' divorce has fractured U.S. society

This article has free access for all visitors. By Emily Stimpson. Marriage advocates are trying to put halt to legal concept that allows one spouse to leave union for no given reason

Here comes the (very pregnant) bride

Our Takes

Healing from annulments

By Lorene Hanley Duquin. Writing workshops help people go through process more prayerfully

Good Theology of Marriage and More

Book Review: The Nuptial Mystery

Fireproofing marriage

By Teresa Tomeo. Filmmaker hopes to inspire couples to stick it out in a culture that takes commitment lightly

Exploring the roots of marital infidelity

By Emily Stimpson. And why it should not need to mean the end of a Catholic couple's marriage

Eavesdropping on angst

A regretfully single professional woman counsels compromises. What about 'true' love?

Eastern Church took different take

Eastern Church took different take on marriage and the clergy.

Divine communion

By Carl E. Olson. Marriage acknowledges God's act of creation, his love and his plan for humanity

Date nights

This column has free access for all visitors. By Greg Erlandson. If the president and first lady can spend time together, so can the rest of us married couples

Couples use religious programs to overcome debt

Christian personal-finance programs offer discipline that can increase faith as well as strengthen marital harmony

Cause advances for Franciscan 'Georgia martyrs'

Don Clemmer writes an article about five Spanish missionaries who were slain for the Catholic belief in marriage while ministering in the South in the 1590s.

Catholic Martyrs in Georgia?

Five heroic witnesses to the sanctity of marriage by Father Conrad L. Harkins, O.F.M.

Catholic marriage trends mirror U.S. statistics

Fuzziness over religious identity among faithful is one of the reasons for the declining number.

Cardinal's life was influenced by his marriage

By Jonathan Luxmoore. English Anglican convert Cardinal Manning later expressed appreciation for the Catholic Church's clerical celibacy policy

Bioethics, marriage issues topic of documents

Vatican congregation updating instruction Donum Vitae in light of recent threats to life.

Baptism, Marriage Issues

Challenging the marginal parishioners on the importance of practicing the faith.

Authors use distinct approaches

Spring book reviews by Mary DeTurris Poust

Aquinas' Contribution to the Question of Chastity

By Basil Cole, O.P. Marriage - Part ll

Abortion connection to new ERA effort worrisome

While Congress considers proposal, opponets say it establishes right to same-sex marriage and harms women.