About Saving Christian Marriage…
- "Our people should be reading this before they go to pre-Cana classes." — M.L., New York
- "Many thanks for your good work." — A.B., California
- "Essential reading for all Catholics." — E.R., Indiana
- "My husband is a marriage counselor…it will help him in his work." — C.L., Texas
These are some of the responses to Saving Christian Marriage, the Wanderer Forum Foundation's new book (Wanderer Forum Foundation, PO Box 542, Hudson, Wi 54016-0542, $12.95, wandererforum@juno.com).
Reviewer Ellen Rice (The Wanderer, July 19), stated bluntly: "This volume features a brief foreword by Bishop Thomas Doran of Rockford, Ill, a preface by Dr. Charles E. Rice, chairman of the Wanderer Forum Foundation, and a final page of sobering reminders about what has changed since the body of this book, a series of talks given at the 1973 Wanderer Forum, was composed.
"Yet these incidental features are only the beginning of the book's true value. Its magnificence lies in the fact that it presents essays that dealt with Christian marriage before its image became effaced from our society."
She concluded, "These essays are essential reading for all Catholics, and for young people seeking to believe that the ‘Theology of the Body' refers to a reality that once existed instead of a dream that bears no relationship to the ever-more-frightening landscape of divorce, lies, economically motivated and loveless ‘marriages,' infidelity, and live-in arrangements of all sorts."
This book belongs in the hands of kids starting college with its freedom and bodily temptations; it belongs in the hands of those preparing for marriage in all faiths, particularly Catholic. There is more to marriage than the bed, the wallet, the gorgeous house, and the trophy children. Saving Christian Marriage tells it like it should be, life giving and fill of grace.
