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Planning the most wonderful day of your life has never been a cakewalk. But if you are trying to get married in the Catholic church, there are a host of additional questions. For example:

My fiancé was married before, can we be married in the Catholic church? · We’re living together, can we still be married in the Catholic Church? · I don’t like my pastor. Can I be married somewhere else? · Can we incorporate our Hispanic traditions in the wedding? · Can we write our own vows? · Are their restrictions on decorations? · Can we have “Here comes the bride” when we walk down the aisle? · Can communion ever be shared with those who aren’t Catholic? · Can we have our wedding during Lent?

In The Catholic Wedding Answer Book, to be published this June by Resource Publications, Inc., Paul Turner answers these questions and more. The work is intended to help couples directly – and to help the clergy answer the most frequently asked questions from engaged couple with both authority and sensitivity. “Weddings are problematical for both couples and clergy,” says Paul Turner. “They also represent a tremendous opportunity for engaging people in church life. My hope is that this book will give couples more control over their weddings but in a way that is consistent with church tradition.”

Paul Turner, pastor of St. John Regis Parish in Kansas City, Missouri, holds a doctorate in sacramental theology from Sant’ Anselmo University in Rome. He is a regular columnist for MINISTRY & LITURGY magazine and author of two previous books: The Catechumenate Answer Book and ML Bulletin Inserts.

THE CATHOLIC WEDDING ANSWER BOOK
ML Answers the 101 of the Most Asked Questions
Paul Turner
160 pages 5 ½"× 8 ½",
ISBN: 0-89390-517-8, $19.95
June 2001