Gloria.TV News on the 26th of March 2015
Reality Check: Father Alexander Lucie-Smith – a parish-priest and journalist for the Catholic Herald – has explained why he signed the letter of 500 British priests in support of Church teaching on marriage. According to him “divorce is no longer an issue in the way it was” but rather the disappearance of marriage. Lucie-Smith further quotes a friend of a non-Catholic Christian community who said that his group still speaks during wedding ceremonies of lifelong union, but effectively has abandoned the concept. “Every marriage is indissoluble,” the friend said, “until we say it is dissolved.” Lucie-Smith asks: “Is this the way we want to go?”
Dramatic Decrease: The number of Catholic marriages in the U.S. is at a new low point according to the Georgetown University's Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. In 1970 there were more than 400,000 Catholic marriages while there were 150,000 last year. Pool director Mark Gray commented: "The Church …