Fr. Jim Halstead, O.S.A., Discusses the Catholic Church's Teaching on Marriage
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“Here’s the thing that I’ve learned in my 39 years of doing marriages, as well as teaching [at DePaul University], the American post-Enlightenment contractual idea of marriage - that is, marriage is what we decide it is - an incredibly powerful idea that haunts the minds of American Catholics.”
Fr. Halstead was interviewed for Religion and Ethics Newsweekly in September, 2015. The full interview compiled interviews with others by PBS to answer the question "Will the Catholic Church under Pope Francis be open to reform on marriage and divorce?"
