Who Should Pick the Maid of Honor: The Husband or the Wife?

Mother Miriam Live - February 9, 2024 Continuing the article "Emptying the Cross of Its Power" My future husband is trying to tell me who I can and cannot have as my maid of honor in our wedding. Is he overstepping boundaries, and if so, how should I navigate this? I'm struggling with how to handle my daughter's lesbian relationship and the idea of inviting she and her "partner" into our home. Any advice? Can a deacon officiate a Catholic wedding without a priest's supervision? Why does the LGBTQ community seem to have a particular fascination with joining the Catholic church, as opposed to any other church that accepts such things, despite the fact that they generally show no desire to change their ways and live in union with Catholic teaching? How did it come to be that any motivation, suggestion or requirement for conversion and fidelity to our Lord become unnecessary and commonplace? How did it come to be that a Bishop would tell a Jewish man that Catholicism was just a preferred way to avoid hell and get to heaven?