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Marriage in the Catholic Church, also known as holy matrimony, is the "covenant by which a man and woman establish between themselves a partnership of the whole of life and which is ordered by its nature to the good of the spouses and the procreation and education of offspring", and which "has been raised by Christ the Lord to the dignity of a sacrament between the baptized". [1]
Holy Name Church is a Catholic church and diocesan shrine, the seat of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Star of the New Evangelization Parish in Columbus, Ohio.It is part of the Diocese of Columbus and located just north of the campus of the Ohio State University.
In 1981, Pope John Paul II founded the Pontifical Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family in the Apostolic Constitution Magnum Matrimonii Sacramentum, as part of the effort to develop study on the themes around the marriage and family, as well as Catholic theology on the body.
Marriage is an icon (image) of the relationship between Jesus and the Church. This is somewhat akin to the Old Testament prophets' use of marriage as an analogy to describe the relationship between God and Israel. Marriage is the simplest, most basic unity of the church: a congregation where "two or three are gathered together in Jesus' name."
The Vatican’s newly released document addressing the blessing of same-sex couples doesn’t pave the way for gay weddings at churches or with Catholic priests as officiants.
Saint John the Baptist Italian Catholic Church Columbus 720 Hamlet St, Columbus, OH 43215 Gothic Revival Located in the Italian Village neighborhood of Columbus, St. John the Baptist Church was established as an Italian National parish rather than as a parish for a geographical area. Built in 1898, it is an Ohio historical site.
In the meantime Father Christy had the church remodeled and arranged according to the requirements of a Catholic place of worship, and on Friday, June 8, 1877, the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, he celebrated Mass there for the first time and dedicated the structure. The choir of Holy Cross Church furnished the music as a tribute of the ...
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