Author says wading into culture wars is about defending child rights
[Editor’s Note: Katy Faust is Founder and Director of “Them Before Us,” a children’s rights group. She received her undergraduate degree in Political Science and Asian Studies at St. Olaf College and...
View ArticleAuthor: Ministry to married couples must radically change to save marriage
With marriage and church attendance on a steep decline overall in the United States, Catholic parishes need to make some radical changes in the way they approach marriage ministry and teach the...
View ArticleAround the world, bishops confront new same-sex marriage laws
ROME – As governments around the world are pushing to legalize same-sex marriage or at least legislation favoring homosexual couples, the bishops in those countries have been vocal in advocating for...
View ArticlePope urges couples facing ‘stormy seas’ of COVID to keep marriages afloat
ROME – In a letter to spouses around the world, Pope Francis offered comfort and encouragement to families enduring the ups and downs of the coronavirus pandemic, telling them to lean on God together...
View Article‘Called to Joy of Love’ is theme of National Marriage Week USA Feb. 7-14
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Called to the Joy of Love” is the theme of this year’s National Marriage Week USA Feb. 7-14. The week includes World Marriage Day, which this year is Feb. 13. The annual...
View ArticleCouple aims to shed light on domestic violence in Catholic families
ROME – For nearly three decades Christauria Welland and her husband Michael Akong have been traveling the world educating couples on the reality of domestic abuse and offering both families and local...
View ArticleIn Lebanon, how to say ‘I do’ sparks fierce debate
BEIRUT — Dona-Maria Nammour was looking for a love story. The night she met Mazen Jaber for the first time, they ended up dancing for hours. But their tale is about more than a meet-cute to...
View ArticleWith American backing, thinkers gather in Rome to defend ‘Humanae Vitae’
ROME – With American Catholic backing, a group of jurists and theologians are gathering in Rome this week to push back against a seemingly more permissive stance from the Vatican’s Pontifical Academy...
View ArticleCatholics in South Sudan voice alarm over forced marriage
YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – Catholic clerics in South Sudan are raising alarms over forced child marriages, complaining that the traditional practice scuttles girls’ dreams of ever walking the corridors of...
View ArticleEnglish bishop claims marriage ‘disappearing in Britain’
LEICESTER, United Kingdom – An English Catholic bishop says the shrinking number of marriages in the country is causing negative social consequences, the implications of which are only beginning to be...
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