Marriage & Family Life

ORLANDO, Fla. (OSV News) — Meeting in Orlando for their spring assembly, the U.S. bishops moved ahead on some efforts to advance the church’s mission in the U.S., including new …

There’s nothing quite like understanding what a physical heart is to a body, and to realize God himself has one. I’ve long loved the solemnity of the Sacred Heart, which …

(OSV News) — Recent studies show that online dating is one of the most popular ways couples meet each other. But some single Catholics are growing disillusioned with the digital …

UPDATE 9/5/2023: The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints clarified Sept. 5 that in including the Ulmas’ seventh child in the family’s Sept. 10 beatification, it had considered the child …

DETROIT (OSV News) — Nicole Duque, 23, has always desired to become a mother. She was born and raised in the United States, with a Bolivian mother and a late …

(OSV News) — There is no shortage these days of proposed state and federal government legislation directed at both safety and liability in a digital environment that almost everyone — …

(OSV News) — Among Catholics, the sacrament of matrimony is in freefall. Over 50 years between 1969 and 2019, Catholic marriages declined 69% even as the Catholic population increased by …

PHILADELPHIA (OSV News) — About 10 years ago, Peter Piotti was anything but a fan of Valentine’s Day. “I hated it,” he admitted. So did his wife, Gae, who dodged …

(OSV News) — When Adriana Vasquez was working in marriage ministry for the Archdiocese of New York two decades ago, she helped enrich the theology expressed in its materials and …

(Leer in Español) One challenge of my work as a judge in a diocesan marriage tribunal is that, in one sense, nobody is happy to have to meet me. No …