Father Joshua Whitfield on his vocation as a husband, father and priest, and why most Catholic homilies are just plain awful.

A Reflection for the Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent, by Valerie Schultz

Paul and Maureen Moses run a weekend retreat that fulfills the infamous “marriage prep” part of getting married in the Catholic Church. And it’s wonderful.

The truth is that there was nothing wrong with my first wife when we got married. And there was nothing wrong with me. I don’t need to offer up witnesses, and my privacy, to prove otherwise.

What does the church really teach about this widely misunderstood process, and how does it play out in the lives of ordinary Catholics?

“We fought. My God, I said bad words. I said awful things. But now, to finish the day, I must make peace”. You know why? Because the cold war the next day is very dangerous.