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It’s a little late for Valentine’s Day, but this has to be a love story for the ages: His hand brushed hers ever so lightly, and in that moment, Charlie Wellen’s life changed. “A big jolt of electricity went through me,” he says. “Wow! I’ll never forget that. And it’s been that good ever since.”…

Well, I’m sure some deacons would gladly raise their hands and volunteer for this sacramental duty — but we can’t. Neither can lay people. And that’s beginning to cause problems, as the AP reports: It was John B. Baus’s 82nd birthday. When he was getting ready to go out with his wife, he had a…

With a little free time to explore today (!), I wandered over to For Your Marriage, the website on the sacrament set up a couple years ago by the USCCB. I visited there a few times when it first debuted, but it had fallen off my radar screen.  I was curious to see how it’s…

This just in, from Charm City: Despite the concern voiced by some bishops about the document’s pastoral tone and content, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops approved a pastoral letter on marriage Nov. 17. Nearly 100 changes in two rounds of amendments preceded the 180-45 vote in favor of “Marriage: Love and Life in the…
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