Pope Francis, in Amoris Laetitia (On Love in the Family), spoke of marriage as an encounter, a union, and a sacrament in which Christ himself meets the couple...
Marriage
Discover U.S. Catholic articles on marriage, highlighting faithful, justice-centered approaches to love, commitment, and family life through this sacrament.
Anna (her name is changed here for safety reasons) was in a decades long marriage that she came to understand as emotionally abusive. When people outside of...
When my wife and I married, we sang Rory Cooney and Gary Daigle’s “Covenant Hymn.” Based on Ruth’s proclamation to her mother-in-law Naomi, that she would...
For our Sounding Board column, U.S. Catholic asks authors to argue one side of a many-sided issue of importance to Catholics around the country. We also invite...
Unlike most other parents, I don’t dread the beginning of the school year because of the kid-related stress (though it definitely contributes to the anxiety of...
My husband and I were engaged in December 2019. We quickly chose our venue and selected a wedding date: January 23, 2021. Then, of course, March 2020 ushered...
My wife recently purchased a new T-shirt: black, sleeveless, and adorned with a punk rock cartoon vampire in a nod to one of her favorite shows. When it...
In Costa Rica, we don’t have much Gothic architecture, for obvious reasons, but we do have a neo-Gothic church built in 1930 in my father’s hometown of...
I had recently given birth to my second child when I first encountered the idea of the “marriage debt.” My ex and I were Catholic converts, and we had become...
My husband and I completely understood why our first marriage prep session went awry: The gentleman in charge wasn’t prepared to conduct the activities without...
