Marriage today is in crisis: A majority in the Western world does not even know what marriage truly is. If the Pope wants the October synod to boldly engage with and renew the Church’s theology of ...

Q: Can a Catholic date a person whose marriage has not been annulled or is this a sin? A: For a few reasons, it's hard to ...

Why does the Church insist on defending the indissolubility of marriage, and why is marriage between a man and a woman considered to be so essential to society? To find out, the Register spoke with ...

In their debates over homosexuality, denominations tend to assume that the “orthodox” people will be antigay and that advocates for inclusion are eager to toss out anything older than, say, 1968. This ...

Father Robert J. Kaslyn, S.J., is a Jesuit priest and canon lawyer who serves as Dean of the School of Canon Law at Catholic University of America—the only school of canon law in the United States. He ...

Pope Francis greets children during his general audience in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican May 4, 2022. (CNS photo/Paul Haring) An international conference of moral theology will be held at the ...

In a few weeks, my partner Daniel and I will celebrate five years of marriage. Since we live in Minnesota, where same-sex marriage is not legal, it was not something recognized by the state. But our ...

PROF. SUSAN ROSS (Loyal University Chicago): The Church actually was very progressive in the Middle Ages by saying that for a valid marriage to take place, there had to be free consent of both the ...

Katharina and Martin Luther lived 500 years ago, but they can teach us much about how to live well in our own modern-day marriages. Martin Luther had no intention of marrying. Though he had preached ...

Fred Parrella, associate professor of religious studies at Santa Clara University, and Gerald Coleman, S.S., President of St. Patrick's Seminary, offered these remarks as part of a panel on Gay ...