Family Life

Marriage Fact Sheets (PDF format)

Married Love and the Gift of Life, November 14, 2006.
Responds to questions about married love and contraception. Provides a solid review of Natural Family Planning for engaged and married couples.  

Always Our Children: A Pastoral Message to Parents of Homosexual Children and Suggestions for Pastoral Ministers, 1997.
A compassionate response to families struggling with the homosexuality of a loved one. Available in English and Spanish.

When I Call for Help: A Pastoral Response to Domestic Violence Against Women (10th Anniversary Edition), November 12, 2002.
A compassionate presentation on the challenges of domestic abuse, addressed to those who are abused, abusers, and the faith community. Available in English and Spanish. A companion PowerPoint presentation is also available. 

Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Letter to the Bishops of the Catholic Church Concerning the Reception of Holy Communion by the Divorced and Remarried Members of the Faithful/Annus Internationalis.  Sept. 14, 1994.
Reconfirms the church’s ordinary teaching on marriage, divorce and remarriage and rules out the “internal forum” in lieu of conformity to church teaching.
 

Caring for your marriage:

How do you and your spouse become life partners?

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