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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- In a historic announcement from the Vatican, Pope Francis has formally signed off on a new policy allowing Catholic Priests to bless same-sex couples. It's seen a step by the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dawn and Clayton MacArthur of Brooks, Alta., received more blessings than they ever expected through the Diocese of Calgary’s Sacred Grace - Church Wedding for Civilly Married Couples program.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...