This may have been the first time you’ve heard the claim in the title of this article, but in making that claim, I’m standing on some broad Catholic shoulders. Pope St. John Paul II wrote, “The ...

With the release of Fiducia Supplicans in December 2023, the Vatican permitted Roman Catholic priests to bless same-sex couples. The announcement scandalized many traditionalists, but it came with an ...

Pope Francis has formally permitted priests to perform blessings for same-sex couples, a move that stops short of sanctioning same-sex marriages, but is still being heralded by some LGBTQ+ advocates ...

We are told that a high percentage of Catholics today doubt the validity of the Blessed Sacrament. That may be true. But I’d be willing to wager that, for most people, the validity of the Sacrament of ...

ROME — Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God’s love and ...

The International Theological Commission this week published a study into the question of whether two "baptized non-believers" can contract sacramental marriage or whether the absence of faith impedes ...

Pope Francis has formally approved allowing priests to bless same-sex couples, with a new document released Monday explaining a radical change in Vatican policy by insisting that people seeking God's ...

The Vatican last week released a document with recommendations for a year-long “marriage catechumenate” to prepare Catholic couples for the sacrament of matrimony. In the document’s preface, Pope ...

Twenty-five couples were sacramentally married June 1 at Queen of Peace Church in Mesa, Ariz. The multiple-wedding Mass is part of a 13-year parish effort to reach out to marginalized couples. (Credit ...

Pope Francis, in his apostolic exhortation “Amoris Laetitia,” writes that the sacrament of marriage “involves a series of obligations born of love itself, a love so serious and generous that it is ...

The topic we are dealing with is not new, but increasingly recurring, namely that of the marriage of baptized persons who, while professing to be non-believers, have celebrated marriage in a religious ...

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