Compared to two decades ago, the number of American Catholics getting married every year has been cut in half—that’s according to the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate. If that does not ...

Do priests have “no credibility” when it comes to marriage ministry? Cardinal Kevin Farrell reportedly asserted as much at a recent gathering of laity. Lacking more information and the full text of ...

How Martin Luther’s doctrine of vocation can mold marriage, parenting, and childhood. For Gene Edward Veith Jr., provost and professor of literature at Patrick Henry College, Martin Luther’s doctrine ...

God blessed Adam and Eve with the vocation of marriage, which continues today. It is a holy calling in which husband and wife serve God, one another and others. Jesus Christ spoke of the sacred nature ...

Tim Otto found the Church of the Sojourners in San Francisco almost by accident. When he was a lonely little kid, one of their members, an artist, tried to teach him to paint. (“I was an utter failure ...

The Sixth Commandment's mandate against adultery is a call to fidelity that applies not only to married couples, but to all Christians called to love others through their vocation, Pope Francis said.

This story appears in the USCCB Summer 2017 feature series. View the full series. Cardinal Joseph Tobin of Newark, N.J., speaks June 14 of the opening day of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' ...

In Lebanon, the first assembly of the “khouriyètes”, the affectionate term for the wives of married priests. A “virtuous revolution” for the Maronite Church, promoted by the bishops of Antelias and ...