Office of Marriage and Family

Marriage is a vocation, inasmuch as it is a response to a specific call to experience conjugal love as an imperfect sign of the love between Christ and the Church. Consequently, the decision to marry and to have a family ought to be the fruit of a process of vocational discernment (no. 72).

-Pope Francis (Amoris Laetitia)

Information and Resources

Are you discerning your vocation? Would you like to learn about the Church’s teaching on marriage?

Here you will find a host of resources to help in your discernment and formation on God's plan for marriage.

For Your Marriage by the USCCB

Church Teaching - Links to information from For Your Marriage

Marriage Unique for a Reason

Marriage: Unique for a Reason is an initiative of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Marriage: Unique for a Reason offers resources to assist with the education and catechesis of Catholics on why marriage is unique.

The Vocation of Marriage Is A Couple's Response to God's Call

LETTER OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS

FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO

Apostolic Exhortation - FAMILIARIS CONSORTIO
Pope John Paul II on the role of the christian family in the modern world.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

USCCB (United States Conference of Catholic Bishops)

Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan

A Pastoral Letter of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

AMORIS LÆTITIA

Post-Synodal Apostolic Exhortation by Pope Francis

Amoris Laetitia - On Love in the Family

"God calls you to make definitive choices, and he has a plan for each of you: to discover that plan and to respond to your vocation is to move toward personal fulfillment. God calls each of us to be holy, to live his life, but he has a particular path for each one of us. Some are called to holiness through family life in the sacrament of Marriage."

-Pope Francis