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Marriage
Discover U.S. Catholic articles on marriage, highlighting faithful, justice-centered approaches to love, commitment, and family life through this sacrament.
Does the consumer culture affect marriage? Yes and it’s devastating, says family therapist William Doherty. Marriage is becoming a lifestyle with a...
U.S. marriage rates are dropping, while the approval ratings of cohabitation and childbearing before marriage are climbing. Young adult Catholics don’t...
Careers, children, cohabitation—this isn’t your parents’ path to the altar. Emily Barnak remembers a term that one of her cousins devised years ago to refer to...
Catholics should find a way to welcome couples whose paths to the altar don't go straight down the center aisle. Full disclosure: I hate weddings...
Natural Family Planning has come a long a way, baby. Not only does it meet the church’s moral standard for spacing births, it keeps a marriage going. I...
When I bought her the valentine, she smiled, but I knew the card was more for me than her. She didn't really know what it said. I read the...
Bette Hausman and Don Storck are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together. If only it were as easy as scheduling the priest and ordering the...
Mary Sue Williams and Cathy Miettunen lived just a few blocks apart in a tree-lined, middle-class neighborhood in St. Paul, Minnesota when both went through...
There are many passages in the parent-child relationship: birth, weaning from the breast or bottle, preschool or kindergarten, high school, full-time work or...
