By Rachel Hoover, Our Sunday Visitor/ Catholic Review, September 2, 2023 In 2022, the Vatican’s Dicastery for Laity, Family and Life released “Catechumenal Pathways for Married Life”, providing principles for rethinking marriage preparation in the Catholic Church. Nearly a year later,... read more

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service, November 29, 2021 VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Concerned at the slow pace of adopting his reforms of the marriage annulment process, Pope Francis has established a Vatican commission to encourage and verify progress in the dioceses of Italy."Each bishop who... read more

By Anthony Esolen, Crisis, February 11, 2021 “If you forgive men their trespasses,” says Jesus, “your heavenly Father will also forgive you; but if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses” (Mt. 6:14-15). In permitting divorced and... read more

By Charles Collins, Catholic Herald, February 18, 2021 Pope Francis recently lamented the fact that a declaration of matrimonial nullity “is thought of as a cold act, a mere ‘legal decision’.” In an annual address to the Roman Rota — the Vatican court that mostly handles appeals of... read more