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For Catholic crisis of divorce, there's now a Survival Guide
Tennille Vega and Gary Montoute will conduct a healing ministry for the separated and divorced during a 12-week program starting Sept. 22. (CHRIS URSO/STAFF)
By Michelle Bearden | Tribune Staff
Published: September 14, 2013
LAND O' LAKES — As if his divorce in 2004 wasn't excruciating enough, Denny Holm had to deal with another heartache relating to his marital split.
“I felt like I was no longer part of my church,” says Holm, 58, a lifelong Catholic.
“I knew how the lepers felt back in Jesus' day. People would look at you like they were afraid they were going to catch something.”
As members of a church that espouses the sanctity of marriage and family life, it's understandable that divorced Catholics feel out of the mainstream after their marriages break up.
http://tbo.com/faith/for-catholic-crisis-of-divorce-theres-now-a-survival-guide-20130914/