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Two of the great unsung heroes of the modern church are a couple programs designed to help marriages: Marriage Encounter and Retrouvaille. My wife and I made a Marriage Encounter weekend several years ago, and found it immensely enriching. But you hear less about the Retrouvaille program, which is designed specifically for marriages in trouble.…

Well, as expected, the Burke-Majerus feud is escalating, and others around St. Louis are starting to weigh in: A Roman Catholic archbishop’s call this week for Saint Louis University to discipline its popular basketball coach for publicly supporting abortion rights has put the Jesuit school in a bind. If the university takes action against Rick…

The pope today released his message for World Communications Day, which doesn’t happen until May. Perhaps he had a more urgent point to make. The high points, from CNS: In a world where the media increasingly distort facts and manipulate minds, the communication industry needs an ethics code, Pope Benedict XVI said. Just as bioethics…

The following was sent to me, anonymously, from someone who spotted it on Craigslist. I can think of quite a few priests who might have written it. Take it for what it is: a colorful and frank (and, I think, brutally honest) perspective on church life, from the other side of the altar rail: Rant:…
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