Let us all thank God for young couples full of hope and excitement, like the couples I heard about who wanted to join the community Catholic church.

An elderly couple, a middle-aged couple, and a young couple approached the local Catholic Church with their hopes of joining. The priest there was very helpful, but he was firm about one thing.

"We have new rules now," he said, "and one of those new rules is that if you want to join our church, then you must go without marital relations for one m…