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Marriage & Family Life

Called to foster: Families welcome children with love

May 6, 2025
By Susan McInerney
Special to the Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life

Becoming foster parents for children in need was basically a no-brainer for Kevin and Rachel Okun.

Pope Francis remembered for lasting mark on church’s marriage and family ministry

April 24, 2025
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News
Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Remembering Pope Francis, Vatican, World News

The impact of Pope Francis’ papacy upon Catholic marriage and family life will be extensively studied, debated and commentated upon in the weeks following his death on April 21.

Church must walk with adoptive, foster parents on their journey, says Kentucky priest

March 15, 2025
By Elizabeth Wong Barnstead
OSV News
Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, World News

As the new spiritual director for a national Catholic adoption and foster support ministry, Father Christopher Kight sees himself as “bringing the good news of the Gospel to people who have experienced suffering on so many levels.”

St. Joseph novena guides those ‘on the path to adoption’

March 7, 2025
By Gina Christian
OSV News
Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Saints, World News

The faithful are invited to pray for those whose lives are touched by adoption, seeking the intercession of St. Joseph, the foster father of Jesus.

Mom and historian Nadya Williams explores the role of mothers, human dignity and modern society

February 24, 2025
By Charlie Camosy
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life

Nadya Williams, a classicist and historian who walked away from academia to be a stay-at-home mom, recently spoke with OSV News’ Charlie Camosy about her new book “Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity.”

With mentors and Holy Spirit, marriage catechumenate model bears fruit

February 23, 2025
By Kimberly Heatherington
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News

The Witness to Love approach challenges couples to engage with church teaching and what being married means. It also involves close accompaniment by a practicing Catholic mentor couple — of their own choosing — who shares the couple’s journey to the altar and provides them a “lifeline” of support beyond the wedding day.

Family is where we learn to serve the least among us

February 18, 2025
By Laura Kelly Fanucci
Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life

Family is the way that we learn to love, serve and humble ourselves over and over again to care for Christ in our midst.

A special engagement at Sacred Heart of Mary for Graceland Park couple

February 14, 2025
By Katie V. Jones
Catholic Review
Filed Under: Feature, Local News, Marriage & Family Life, News, Young Adult Ministry

Brandon Holthaus and Veronica Meusel are still making plans on where they will get married. They are grateful that the proposal took place at Sacred Heart of Mary.

Strengthening religious practice could help reverse demographic crisis, says Irish study

February 9, 2025
By Sarah Mac Donald
OSV News
Filed Under: Marriage & Family Life, News, Respect Life, World News

A decline in religion will likely deepen Ireland’s demographic crisis, according to a new study by a pro-family and pro-life Irish institute.

Bishop Barron: Marriage ‘a source of hope’ and ‘antidote to loneliness’

February 7, 2025
By Gina Christian
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News

Ahead of national and international celebrations of matrimony, Bishop Robert E. Barron said that marriage is “a source of hope for all generations.”

Polka dancing, Hershey’s Kisses and novenas for World Marriage Day

February 6, 2025
By Zoey Maraist
OSV News
Filed Under: Feature, Marriage & Family Life, News, World News

The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops picked “Marriage: Source of Hope, Spring of Renewal. Pursue a Lasting Love!” as the theme for this year’s World Marriage Day, Feb. 9 and National Marriage Week, Feb. 7-14.

Marriage: A sacrament of lasting love

February 5, 2025
By Heidi and Cory Busse
OSV News
Filed Under: Commentary, Marriage & Family Life

Married life gives us a glimpse of the eternal union of God and his church and calls each spouse to build the other up for everlasting life in heaven.

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