Witness to Love, a Catholic marriage preparation and renewal ministry, is launching a new program to prepare civilly married couples to enter into sacramental marriages in the Catholic Church. Mary-Rose Verret, who co-founded Witness to Love with her husband, Ryan, said
VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Unity and fidelity are indispensable cornerstones of Christian marriage, Pope Francis said. Having two people generously come together as one and pledge lifelong faithful love must be not only “adequately explained to future newlyweds,” these values also require
At a time when Americans are waiting longer to marry, or choosing not to marry at all, many dioceses and parishes nationwide are working to promote and strengthen marriage. Our Sunday Visitor interviewed a variety of experts in the area of marriage
Question: Jesus says if you divorce your wife and marry another, you commit adultery. But we see many seemingly happy people in their second marriage. What is your perspective on this? — Paul VanHoudt, Erie, Colorado Answer: The implied premise of your
Marriage is the most peculiar of all human relationships. Canonical doctrine reflects the tenet of Christian anthropology that the marriage union is the principal representation of relation, which means marriage places two people closer together than even a mother and child. Two
It’s been said that the Lord works in mysterious ways. Scripture is clear on this point, with Isaiah reminding us that “my thoughts are not your thoughts, nor or my ways your ways. … For as the heavens are higher than the
Marking the 50th anniversary of Humanae Vitae, Blessed Pope Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical upholding the traditional teaching of the Church on marriage and family life, might seem to some like picking at an old wound that has never fully healed — evidenced
Somehow, Americans find royalty fascinating, if it’s British royalty. When Prince Harry was married recently, it was big, big news in this country. The king and queen of Sweden have a new grandbaby. The husband of the queen of Denmark died not
I really wasn’t going to write about the royal wedding. I really, truly wasn’t. But that was before all of us watching were taken to church by Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church Michael Curry on live, global television. Before I continue,
There was a time when the cultural consensus was that children and marriage were a package deal. Today, however, there is a growing trend among couples to rule out childbearing. According to statistics released by the Census Bureau, there is a small