To put it simply: Yes. The Catholic Church has a long history of supporting marriage as a natural right. This includes upholding the validity of marriages...
Marriage
Discover U.S. Catholic articles on marriage, highlighting faithful, justice-centered approaches to love, commitment, and family life through this sacrament.
What’s required for a Catholic wedding? In the Catholic church, marriage isn’t just a celebration of a relationship milestone or the recognition of a new legal...
How do you prepare a Catholic wedding between a born-and-raised Salvadoran Catholic and the only nondenominational convert in a nonreligious Chinese family...
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...
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...
