Cardinal outlines possible paths to Communion for divorced, remarried
Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- The Catholic Church needs to find a way to offer healing, strength and salvation to Catholics whose marriages have failed, who are committed to...
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Eastern canon lawyer examines Catholic, Orthodox practices in handling divorce
Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @JenniferBrinker Eastern and Western Catholic and Orthodox Churches would do well to challenge one another in their practices of handling cases of...
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Pope Francis to open Vatican conference on traditional marriage
Francis X. Rocca | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- A month after closing a Synod of Bishops on the family stirred by controversy over divorce, same-sex unions and other nonmarital relationships,...
View ArticleAnnulment process should be cheaper and more efficient
Francis X. Rocca | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis said the Church's marriage annulment process should be more efficient and perhaps even free of charge, and he decried any attempts...
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Divorced and remarried are not excommunicated, pope says at audience
Cindy Wooden | Catholic News Service VATICAN CITY — Catholics who have divorced and are civilly remarried “are not, in fact, excommunicated — they are not excommunicated — and they absolutely must not...
View ArticleCanadian speaker tells of personal experience with divorce, annulment
Phillipe Vaillancourt | Catholic News Service PHILADELPHIA -- As the director of the Catholic Organization for Life and Family, Michele Boulva is well-known in the Canadian Catholic Church. Yet at the...
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Program transforms divorced Catholics from surviving to thriving
Jennifer Brinker | jbrinker@archstl.org | twitter: @jenniferbrinker Donna O'Donnell had just met the group of six at a Catholic's Divorce Survival Guide meeting. She hardly knew them, but already had...
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DEAR FATHER | The Church supports the faithful in painful situations of divorce
Father John Mayo A couple enters into marriage with great joy and hope for the future. When a marriage declines and ends in divorce, it's a painful event on so many levels. What makes it even more...
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