Even though official Catholic teaching had until then put an ... the practice of the Church had always implicitly recognized love as the meaning of marriage. She had always approved the marriage ...

Within Roman Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and similar traditions, formal blessings of the church are performed by bishops, priests, and sometimes deacons, but as in many other religions ...

Run out and buy this book.' Mark Massa, S.J., Boisi Center for Religion and American Life, Boston College 'Though thankfully rare today, anti-Catholic prejudice shaped many discussions of public ...