On Saturday Pope Francis told a group of parish priests training on the new marriage annulment process to place strong emphasis on good preparation that isn't limited to just a few courses, but ...

Mumbai: With marriages today falling apart because of trivial issues, the Catholic Church has become more careful on making the couples do a marriage preparatory course before the couple enters into ...

The State has cut funding for pre-marriage courses. Do such courses really help couples hoping to tie the knot Naoise McNally and Ronan Lyons Dermot Casey and wife Jennifer declined to attend a ...

Marriage classes that attract mainly women are sprouting up on U.S. campuses. The trend is part of an initiative led by the Bush administration, with bipartisan congressional support, to try to lower ...

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. (AP)-- It is the class that wasn't supposed to happen. In the basement of Jubilee Hall at Seton Hall University, 24 undergraduates meet twice a week for a course known as "Special ...

Before Philip Wall, 41, and Anna Chmielarczuk, 32, reluctantly attended a marriage preparation course in Dublin six months ago, they had envisioned a lecture from a priest in a parish hall. What they ...

In a letter to all priests in his diocese, Bishop Denis Brennan of Ferns urged them to “impress on these young couples” the benefits of completing a pre-marriage course run by Accord. Bishop Brennan ...