Pope Francis recently nominated two U.S.-based Catholic advocates of marriage and family life to a key Vatican dicastery, an honor that left the recipients both “stunned” and “excited.” The Holy ...
EDITORIAL: The Church must make the perpetual renewal of marriage one of its central evangelical and pastoral priorities. Over the past 50 years, according to statistics from Georgetown University, ...
The Heritage Foundation, led by former Wyoming Catholic College President Kevin Roberts, released its proposals to support ...
Most notably, the document, which does not speak officially for either ecclesial entity, recommends that the Orthodox Church recognize Catholic marriage and the Catholic Church take steps to recognize ...
Mississauga, Ont.’s Merciful Redeemer Parish’s young adults program is encouraging Catholic adults to rediscover Holy Matrimony in a new light, not as a worldly coming-of-age checklist event, but ...
I was 7 years old when my parents divorced. If they sat down together to share the news with us, I don’t remember the conversation. Compared with the aftermath of many divorces, my family was ...
With the release of Fiducia Supplicans in December 2023, the Vatican permitted Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples. The announcement scandalized many traditionalists, but it came with an ...
Marriage is falling apart in the West, even among so-called professing conservative Christians across the denominational spectrum. So, how are Roman Catholics doing? And how well is their Church — its ...
When the dissolution of a Roman Catholic marriage hits the front pages, non-Catholics are often lost in a maze of civil and church legalities. Last week’s case in point was the broken union of Sloan ...
The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on whether to fib for a relative, especially when you don’t think the ends justify the means. By Kwame Anthony Appiah A few years ago, my cousin became single after ...
The gestures are sweet but modest: I carried my wife's purse. I made her breakfast. I taped a note to her mirror telling her I liked her haircut. The Roman Catholic Church is counting on publicizing ...