Everyone knows that the Church forbids sexual relations before marriage. However, not everyone is aware that even after ...

POPE FRANCIS ALLOWS PRIESTS TO BLESS SAME-SEX COUPLES The document affirmed the Catholic Church's inability to change the ...

The proposed removal of the long-standing language on marriage is largely seen as symbolic, since the U.S. Supreme Court ...

That is why the Catholic Church believes and teaches — and will always believe and teach — that marriage is indissoluble, sacramental, and ordered to both the sanctification of the spouses and ...

RELATED: On Marriage, Christians Are Called to Engage ... Because he believes that the Catholic Church has a better answer to the human longing for happiness than the false promises of the sexual ...

Even though official Catholic teaching had until then put an almost exclusive stress on the importance of procreation as the purpose of marriage, the practice of the Church had always implicitly ...

Q: I was married in a non-Catholic wedding ceremony, then divorced years later civilly. Once I became Catholic and wanted to ...

While the Catholic Church is not — nor does she want to be — a political party or a special-interest group, she does have a ...

a baptized or otherwise confirmed Catholic is required to contract his or her marriage before an authorized minister of the Church, usually a priest or deacon, and before two witnesses.

As more U.S. adults are delaying marriage -- or simply saying, "I don't" -- the Catholic bishops of California have launched ...

Catechism of the Catholic Church 1604 Catholic Christians believe that God is present at the marriage ceremony and witnesses the promises made before him. The rings given at the marriage ceremony ...

The Catholic Church does not have the power to bless ... It replied: "Negative". The CDF noted that marriage between a man and a woman is sacrament and therefore blessings cannot be extended ...