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Learning from Marriage

The sacrament that just won't quit

Richard R. Gaillardetz

When I started to think about getting married some eleven years ago it hardly felt like a natural step. I was thirty years old, and I had been in a steady, reasonably contented relationship for nearly two years. Diana, I don’t hesitate to add, was (and still is!) an intelligent, athletic, and attractive woman. Clearly it was time to make some decisions about our future (...)


 

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Richard R. Gaillardetz is the Murray/Bacik Professor of Catholic Studies at the University of Toledo. He is the author of The Church in the Making: Lumen Gentium, Christus Dominus, Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Paulist, 2006) and Ecclesiology for a Global Church: A People Called and Sent (Orbis, 2008).

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