Author name: Audrey Connor

What is the church’s voice in the marriage equality issue, and how helpful is it? As I consider this question, […]

Marriage is one of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church. The word “sacrament” has its origin in the Latin

I have been avoiding writing this essay. I’ve been struggling with my answer to this question. God has pestered me

The church should care about marriage because we have handed to it the secular and legal task of marrying individuals.

I need the language of Dickens to describe the scene I witnessed some time ago. A couple of older clergy,

I was once called at 4 a.m. to care for a family I did not know. They were at the

For some, the Church is the final bastion in the culture war to preserve the notion held by some of

For many years I have struggled with how to Biblically relate to homosexuality. Of course the references in both the

One of the worst days of my life was my wedding day. The stress, the families, the worrying, or the

I never really thought about what my wedding would be like til I came Out. Then of course I spent

She was a blond haired, blue eyed, bubbly eleven year old who more or less ricocheted off walls. She wanted

I want to rephrase the question. Instead of, “Why should the church care about marriage?” I want to ask, “How