The Catholic World articles from May 1995

The Catholic World archives from May 1995

Communication: Marriage's Vital Skill
May 1, 1995... Success in marriage depends on a lot of things. The first crucial one is choice of a compatible partner. Then there are the attitudes we bring: realistic or dreamlike, committed or ready t run. Finally, there are some essential skills, which...

Marriage as a Process
May 1, 1995... Marriage is a process something like going up a series of steps with your partner. Like most processes, you take one step at a time. But in marriage you may want to take the steps fast, or even skip certain steps, while your partner may want to...

Spirituality in Marriage
May 1, 1995... Brian and Julie had both been unhappy in their first marriages. After their divorces were final, they each felt as if they might be condemned to drift endlessly on the same sea of emptiness that confronted them in single life. Both were...

Forgiveness: The Heart of Love
May 1, 1995... It hadn't been a good morning. Just before breakfast they had blown up at each other. She accused him of selfishness and insensitivity to her needs. He told her she over-reacted to everything. She wanted to take some time to talk about the...

The Theology and Spirituality of Marriage
May 1, 1995... On reviewing the almost two thousand years of the Christian Church, one finds that initially the early church leadership spoke only briefly about marriage. One also finds that the early church as such was only peripherally involved in the marriage...

Trusting Again in an Age of Uncertainty
May 1, 1995... More than ever before, in this age of uncertainty and fragile relationships, men and women are entering second marriages. As one well-respected therapist in a remarriage himself (he widowed, she divorced), has pointed out so deliberately, "Most of...

Summer Reading
May 1, 1995... When asked by the editors of The Catholic World for some recommendations for the summer reader, a question floated into my mind: should one recommend books that have already been read (and, hence, recommended with some authority), or would it be a...

Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious.
May 1, 1995... The anti-religious character of Freud's writing is well known. In Sigmund Freud's Christian Unconscious Paul C. Vitz, professor of Psychology at New York University, looks at the other side of the coin. He claims that not only was Freud...

Spirituality in Ecumenical Perspective.
May 1, 1995... E. Glenn Hinson, professor of Spirituality, Worship and Church History at the Baptist Theological Seminary in Richmond, has gathered together a group of well-known figures to celebrate the life and work of Douglas and Dorothy Steere. All...

Marriage: The Most Noble of Human Achievements
May 1, 1995... In many ways, it is the ultimate mystery, the culminating grace. The human family differs more tellingly on other issues but on this it reaches remarkable consensus: marriage is the most important of all our doings. We are, in the normal course of...