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The Roman Catholic Church holds as an important doctrine that sexuality, though a gift from God, is fraught with moral danger. There is also only one legitimate form of sexual expression--a married heterosexual relationship, always open to the possibility of procreation. So the nature of sex is inescapably bound...
Most divorcing couples are hardly in the mood to stand up together in church and make new vows. But a growing number are finding that a divorce ceremony can bring closure and even comfort at the end of a marriage. Barbara and Phil Penningroth divorced in 1997 after 25 years...
Though not commonplace, divorce ceremonies are being performed in a variety of denominations, not to promote divorce but to help couples through one of the most painful experiences of their lives. Lutherans call it a "private confession ritual" and suggest that one or two close friends be in attendance--but...
End-of-marriage ceremonies have been around for some 3,000 years in Judaism, which requires a get--a religious document that consecrates the divorce--before couples are allowed to remarry in a temple. Today the male-oriented ceremony (the husband asks for the get and gives it to his...
Members of the clergy acknowledge that divorce ceremonies are not for everyone. "Ideally," says Father Malcolm Boyd, 78, an Episcopal priest who has performed half a dozen divorce ceremonies for people of various faiths, "there should be two people trying to be honest, getting on with their lives and not...