The length of the average American marriage is 8.8 years, and 50 percent of all American marriages will end in divorce. Suffering through a divorce and resultant estrangements, I wondered would my ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS NEWS) -- The leader of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia says divorced and remarried parishioners should abstain from sex and live "like brother and sister" if they want ...

NEW YORK (AP) | Pope Francis’ call Wednesday for a church of “open doors” that welcomes divorced Catholics prompted speculation over whether he was signaling support for easing the ban on Communion ...

The rate of married couples filing for divorce has begun to trend downward in recent years, but the rate of “gray divorce” — divorces of couples in their 60s or older — has continued to climb. A July ...

Pope Francis has enjoined the Catholic Church to embrace and welcome gay and divorced members while also recognising the positive sides of the church’s disagreement over these topics. The pontiff in ...

An Ohio woman’s fight to save her Catholic marriage from civil no-fault divorce took another important turn when Ave Maria School of Law professor Stephen Safranek submitted an argument to the state ...

Stepping into a dispute over religious education, a state appeals court rules that the child of divorced parents could not be enrolled in a Catholic high school over one parent's protest without ...