Openness to Life is for All of Us

It’s not uncommon to have couples of advanced years in the SmartLoving Engaged course. One or both may be widowed or they may have only found love and a vocation to marriage after many decades of single life.  Sometimes they express confusion or frustration that their marriage preparation course includes fertility awareness education. For example, recently a widower in…

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Blessed be the (Relationally) Poor

Embracing the Call to Love in an age of relational poverty.  Pope Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation Dilexi Te (Latin: I have loved you, Rev 3:9), reminds us that faith and love for the poor are inextricably linked. He writes,   “We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith…

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