In the Catholic church, for example, marriage is a religious sacrament carrying no secular legal significance.
Without the annulments, Catholics who remarry are not allowed to receive Holy Communion, which many describe as a painful exclusion from the church's chief sacrament.
Father Timothy Taugher of Blessed Sacrament Church in Johnson City and Professor Diane O'Heron of Brome Community College, a UMCF board member, also spoke.
The diocese said children could "only proceed to the sacrament of first Communion when they take part in the Church's life and understand the Church's faith".
Thomas Adams, 16, was practicing indoors in the gym of Blessed Sacrament School when he was struck by a pitch, stood up and said, "I can't breathe, " authorities said.
If the relationship is consensual and the participants are loving and caring, then who has the right to exclude this behaviour or keep these groups from the sacrament of marriage?
The Catholic Church is never going to view marriage except from the perspective of a sacrament, an unbreakable bond between one man and one woman, open to the God-given gift of children.
With a personalized examination of conscience for each user, password protected profiles, and a step-by-step guide to the sacrament, this app invites Catholics to prayerfully prepare for and participate in the Rite of Penance.
The experience of many Catholics is that this love in which God dwells can be found in multiple forms, all working towards the faithfulness and self-giving commitment to which the sacrament of marriage points.
Dr Byrne's book offended by presenting a feminist plea that Catholic woman should be allowed to administer the sacrament, a view that conflicts with the Pope's 1994 apostolic letter Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, that the Catholic church cannot and will not ordain women.
And the sense it had given him, of union with nature and of the spiritual basis of all creation, convinced him that he had found a sacrament for the modern age: the antidote to the ennui caused by consumerism, industrialisation and the vanishing of the divine from human life.
ECONOMIST: Albert Hofmann, chemist, died on April 29th, aged 102
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