Daily Prayers, Daily Vows
by Brian DoyleMarriage and monastic life share many pleasures, pains, and conundrums. Every day you have to walk into the thicket of your promise again. Continue Reading »
Francis's Improv Theology
by R. R. RenoFrancis reminds us that the Eucharist is not “a prize for the perfect.” But marriage, apparently, is. Continue Reading »
Can Only Theologians Get Married?
by Matthew SchmitzIf the sincere exchange of vows doesn’t make their marriage valid, what does? Must all sacramentally valid marriages resemble my friends', beginning only after a few years of theological study, during a Mass set to music by Mozart? Continue Reading »
Marriage is Not a Social Convention
by Nathaniel PetersIn a Web Exclusive article today, I elaborate problems that I see in Amoris Laetitia. Here on First Thoughts, I want to discuss the parts of Amoris Laetitia that are especially helpful for an engaged couple. The document offers an excellent diagnosis of why marriage can be difficult in our time: . . . . Continue Reading »
The True Goods of Marriage: Not What We Expect
by Bianca CzadernaEveryone’s talking about marriage these days. Even those who don’t believe in it are talking about it all the time. The definition of marriage, the future of marriage, gay marriage, divorce and remarriage, when to get married, how to be married, how to stay married. It’s simultaneously being . . . . Continue Reading »
Bring Courtship Back
by Alexi SargeantStaring down the barrel of Valentine’s Day, many young men and women have few and scanty models of what a romantic relationship looks like—especially (though not exclusively!) young people of faith interested in chastity and marriage. The Love and Fidelity Network has set out to . . . . Continue Reading »
Carson the Butler on True Marriage
by Robert P. GeorgeViewers of Downton Abbey may have noticed in the recently aired first episode of Season Six that Carson the Butler articulated, in a delicate but firm and unmistakable way, the truth that marriage is a conjugal union. Mrs. Patmore, the cook, is sent as an emissary of Carson's fiancée, Mrs. Hughes, . . . . Continue Reading »
Marriage and Poverty—The New Consensus
by Greg ForsterLeft and right agree—the breakdown of marriage destroys the poor. Continue Reading »
Five Ways the Church Can Help Married and Engaged Couples
by Ashley McGuireSitting at a high-top table in Reading Terminal Market in Philadelphia, just a few blocks away from Pope Francis and the World Meeting of Families, a young priest friend leaned in and asked me what I wish had been different about my marriage prep. “Having been through it recently, what would you . . . . Continue Reading »
What a Divorced and Remarried Catholic Wants from the Synod
by Luma SimmsRegina Einig interviewed Luma Simms, author of My Plea, for the German newspaper Die Tagespost, in which a version of this interview first appeared.As a divorced and remarried Catholic mother who wishes to bring up her children in the faith, do you think that the Church could make things easier . . . . Continue Reading »
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