Articles on this issue "divorce"
One consequence of the 1996 U.S. welfare reform was to channel funds into marriage education. Apart from the personal costs of divorce, broken marriages were leading to ever-higher welfare …
read moreVirtually half the marriages that have taken place in Austria in recent years have ended in civil divorce. In Vienna alone, this rate rises to 59%. It is important "to act in a preventive …
read moreFamily life in Chile is under pressure but that doesnt justify allowing divorce into the country, warns a cardinal. Cardinal Francisco Javier Errázuriz, archbishop of Santiago and president of …
read moreIn a discourse Jan. 28 to the Roman Rota, John Paul II addressed the essential properties of marriage, unity and indissolubility. The Holy Father set his theme: "I want to examine …
read moreIn his speech to the members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota last Monday, John Paul II exhorted all to combat the "divorce mentality" so pervasive in todays society. He has good reason to be …
read moreThe Church "is not fundamentalist" on the matter of divorce, says the secretary of the Italian bishops conference, in response to media criticisms of John Paul IIs address Tuesday to the Roman …
read moreThe press twisted John Paul IIs words when he spoke about divorce to the Roman Rota on Monday, according to Church officials and laymen in Italy. Bishop Giuseppe Betori, secretary-general of …
read moreAvvenire).- Emanuela Colombo, an attorney in Milans Rota who in the civil field also works in family law, has no doubts: "The Pope is asking us for an examination of conscience." He was …
read moreDeclarations of marital nullity passed by ecclesiastical tribunals should be a "pastoral" service of the Church to the indissolubility of marriage, John Paul II says. The Pontiff today …
read moreWhat must a lawyer do when a client asks his services to obtain a divorce, at times for shameful reasons? John Paul II answered this question today when he met with lawyers and judges of the …
read moreIf marriage is not forever, it is not marriage, and without marriage the family, the very foundation of society, is undermined, John Paul II said today, when suggesting positive ways to combat …
read moreLast week, ZENIT looked at recent U.S. efforts to strengthen family life. Similar efforts elsewhere have not been as evident, perhaps because family life has not deteriorated to the same point …
read moreMexican President Vicente Fox met John Paul II in private audience today and discussed a wide range of topics, from world tensions to the Churchs role in the second largest Catholic country. …
read moreThe Catholic Church is by far the most trustworthy institution in Chile, but it is losing members to evangelical Protestant groups, a new survey finds. The 2001 Church National Survey found …
read moreThe Argentine bishops conference urged politicians to take an "unheard-of" step to come to grips with the countrys "grave economic problems" and to avoid "a growing divorce with the people." …
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