J.R.R. Tolkien was a romantic.

I spent the 1960s studying to be a priest, so I was exempt from the military draft. I never served in Vietnam. 

There are two kinds of women to whom I am attracted: bad ones and good ones.

Which poses a bigger threat to black communities: Racism? Or the absence of fathers?

Christianity, in its adamant opposition to polygamy, was "the most powerful force for implementing monogamy in Western Civilization." And immense good has come from that contribution.

We've just had the anniversary of her death.

Many Catholic families had hoped that the Synod on the Family would address the serious problem of the divorce epidemic and its long-term damage to youth, innocent spouses, the sacrament of marriage, the culture, and the Church.

There's no such thing as a trial marriage.

I spent over twenty years teaching marriage preparation for the Archdiocese of New York, and I calculate that if all the couples I've addressed were to assemble in one place, they would easily fill Madison Square Garden.

The following Synod on the Family interview with Archbishop Charles Chaput was conducted by email in Rome on October 15 by Samuel Pruvot of the French Catholic magazine Famille Chretienne (FC).