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## [The Sacrament of Marriage and the Healing of Desire](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/06/the-sacrament-of-marriage-and-the-healing-of-desire)
Published by [Timothy O'Malley](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/timothy-omalley)
Within Catholicism, there is a significant vocation crisis, and it relates to the sacrament of marriage. In 1970, there were 426,309 sacramental celebrations of marriage in the United States with a Catholic population of 51 million.[\[1\]](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/topic/self-giving-love#_edn1) In 2015, there were 148,134 marriages with a Catholic population of 81 million. While quantitative data does not tell a narrative, it remains the case that sacramen...
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## [Practices of Priesthood](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/2016/06/02/practices-of-priesthood)
Published by [Msgr. Michael Heintz](https://mcgrathblog.nd.edu/category/essays/author/msgr-michael-heintz)
I have been quite fortunate in my twenty-three years of priesthood to have known some superb role models of priestly life and sacerdotal zeal; unsurprisingly, most of them are older than I am, but in fact a few of them are younger. And the lessons I have learned from them in terms of pastoral fruitfulness can, I think, be boiled down to four simple—stunningly simple—principles. Now I say “fruitful...
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