"I am not married and never have been. There is a great deal I don't know about marriage. In the Pastoral Letter on Marriage which begins herewith in this column and which will appear in installments in future columns, I will write about what I do know regarding marriage from a pastoral perspective, developed as a priest over more than half a century. I am not qualified to write a Marriage Manual, and certainly not the kind of do-it-yourself thing I see advertised in the Sunday newspapers. This is a Pastoral Letter on Marriage."