Love & Relationship

Choosing a beach destination for a honeymoon is one of the many choices available.

Where do honeymooners go?

By Louise McNulty • Catholic News Service • 5/22/2006

AKRON, Ohio � Planning a honeymoon isn�t simple. Couples have to decide when to take it, how long to stay, and where to go. Coralie Fabijanic, an Akron, Ohio, travel agent, has planned honeymoons for couples who chose a cabin in the woods or who retreated to Caribbean islands. A surprise ...

Loving marriage can benefit society, pope says

Catholic News Service • 5/12/2006

VATICAN CITY � Only total, self-giving love based on marriage between a man and woman can form a solid enough foundation for building communities and can benefit all of society, said Pope Benedict XVI. There is a "special urgency" today to avoid confusing marriage with "other types of union ...

Tips for hiring a wedding photographer

By Paul Haring • Catholic News Service • 5/2/2006

The story of your wedding day is entrusted both to memory and photography. Both fade over time, but good photography can bring back many happy memories and remind you of all the emotion and feeling of your special moment in time. Listed below are some helpful wedding photography tips. Make ...

Meaningful marriage reminders

By Peggy Weber • Catholic Online • 4/28/2006

EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass. � In her book, Weaving a Family, author Peggy Weber takes a look at the realities of a marriage and provides some helpful suggestions to help couples nurture their relationship. MARRIAGE: TYING THREADS Families begin when a husband and wife make a commitment to each ...

Marriage, money & the budget...

By Pat Wargocki • Catholic News Service • 4/10/2006

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. - �Money problems are the biggest reason for divorce" in our society, said David Robinson, president of Robinson, Tigue, Sponcil and Associates, a registered investment advisory firm. To help newlyweds avoid becoming another divorce statistic, Robinson conducts financial workshops ...

BENEDICT XVI SIGNS 1ST ENCYCLICAL � Pope Benedict XVI signs his first encyclical, 'Deus Caritas Est' ('God Is Love'), in his private library at the Vatican Jan. 23. Archbishop Leonardo Sandri, assistant papal secretary of state, is at right in this photo. (CNS photo/L'Osservatore Romano)

Pope to couples: Show concern

By John Thavis • Catholic News Service • 4/7/2006

VATICAN CITY (CNS) � In his first encyclical, Pope Benedict XVI called for a deeper understanding of love as a gift from God to be shared in a self-sacrificial way, both at a personal and social level. Download your Free copy of "Deus Caritas Est" ("God Is Love"), courtesy of Catholic ...

March Madness and marriage: 10 lessons for building a winning home team

By Mary Carty • Catholic Online • 3/30/2006

(Catholic Online) � After a season that encompassed autumn, a multitude of games, winter, the holidays, exams and the entrance of spring, the cr�me de la cr�me of college basketball teams will end this year�s NCAA basketball tournament on April 3. Four of the 65 �finalists� will test their ...

GYNECOLOGIST HOLDS INFANT -- Dr. Daniel Greene holds infant MacKenzie Grace Couch at Crittenton Hospital in Rochester Hills, Mich., in early January. Greene, a gynecologist and parishioner of St. Mary of the Hills Parish, said his faith led him to a decision that he will no longer prescribe birth control. He joins a minority of doctors who have a natural family planning-only practice. (CNS photo/ Michigan Catholic)

GYN prescribes natural family planning in practice

By Joe Kohn • Catholic News Service • 3/15/2006

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. � For Dr. Daniel Greene, there's no more debating the point: God made the human body, and he knows what's best for it. As a result, Greene, a gynecologist and member of St. Mary of the Hills Parish in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, has decided that natural family ...

Intimacy not about sex, speaker tells Catholic singles' conference

By John Gleason • Catholic News Service • 2/20/2006

DENVER, Colo. � Although 98 percent of pop culture references to intimacy today are about sex, intimacy is not about sex but about relationships -- not just between husband and wife but between friends, author and retreat leader Matthew Kelly told Catholic singles Feb. 10. "Sex doesn't mean ...

Therapist to couples: Marriage no picnic but worth effort

By Patricia Bartos • Catholic News Service • 2/16/2006

FRANKLIN PARK, Pa. -- "Our culture has really done a magnificent job of convincing people that good marriages 'just happen,'" according to marriage and family therapist Larry Badaczewski. Many experts caution against this romantic, magical view of marriage, "but somehow we have got it in our heads ...