Pope Francis said Wednesday that Catholic marriage is a gift, not just a formality or rule. “Marriage is not a formality to be fulfilled. You don’t get married to be Catholic ‘with the label,’ to obey ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

”So the bottom line is that what the secular world means by the word ‘marriage’ is not even close to what the Church means. Is it time for us to accept this and start using a different word? Perhaps ...

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 ...

(The Conversation) — The past 60 years have been a period of change and reflection for many in the Catholic Church, initiated by the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s and continued by the current ...