Like many of the Intermountain Catholic’s special issues, this one took on a life of its own. In truth, we are challenged in publishing an issue celebrating weddings when statistics tell us that 50 percent of all marriages today end in divorce – yes, even the Catholic ones. This year we would like to put those statistics aside and offer you the good news about marriage. That is, they can last – 35, 50, 60 years and more. And when those important anniversary celebrations bring children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren together to celebrate, they find their parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents still love each other. "What young couples are missing these days are good role models," one long-married woman said. So, in addition to a young couple planning a marriage, we’ve filled this issue with good role models – couples who married in 1947 at the close of World War II. They’re still in love. We offer you couples who married in the early 1950s, at the height of the Korean War. They’re still married. All of these couples have seen hard times. They have struggled through food-rationing, spouses going off to war, and children and grandchildren leaving the faith they value so much. None of these things have driven them apart. They stand now as examples of people for whom divorce was an option, but they chose to stay married. It can be done. There is no cruelty here, and no abuse. There is only love, and the courage it takes to share that love with us. Theirs is the the good news of marriage.
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