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Are you looking for more structure and discipline in your prayer life? Would you like to improve concentration by reflecting on your meditation sessions? Do you want to monitor your meditation practice and personal growth over time? Is it your desire to gain insights into your thoughts, emotions, and experiences? This book may be just what you're looking for!

Tony and Charisse Rubio, of the Greater Cincinnati area, bring a lifetime of experience to the service of the family through their ministry called Our Domestic Church. CLICK TITLE to read the "RC Impact" story...

The five stages are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. These are a part of the framework that makes up our learning to live with the one we lost. They are tools to help us frame and identify what we may be feeling. Not everyone goes through all of them or in a prescribed order. At times, people in grief will...

This information is offered to help those who seek a better understanding about the grounds used to declare marriage null.  Canon law is provided along with commentary explanation for each of the seven grounds...

An annulment is an official Church declaration that marriage no longer binds the couple spiritually. This is purely a religious matter and has no civil effects in the United States. If granted, an annulment states that the marriage never had all the essential elements...

Have the courage to be afraid. Stop trying to think out a solution for the moment:  there isn't one.  One day there may be;  God will then show it to you.  In the meantime, accept it all and offer that to God, because...

Discover the meaning of God’s teaching on the necessity of unconditional forgiveness (mercy) as well as how there can be justice in forgiving even someone who isn’t sorry for the harm or evil done. Being open to forgiveness is an act of mercy that involves a choice by the offended person, while reconciliation is an act of justice involving both...

Here are some signs to watch for if you think you or a friend may be in psychologically abusive relationship...

In violent and unhealthy relationships there is a cycle of recurring patterns or phases of abuse. Abusive relationships consist of three stages, the tension building stage, the explosion stage, and the remorse/honeymoon stage. The length of each stage varies...

Answering a question many have had about how the Church can declare a marriage invalid, especially when a couple has lived together for so many years, and whether their children are illegitimate? ...