Ten years after Pope Francis issued a controversial document on families, Pope Leo XIV will meet with bishops from around the world to discuss the text’s application for today.

Pope Leo XIV issued a special message on Thursday, the Solemnity of St. Joseph and 10th anniversary of Pope Francis’s ...

As some polls show that only about half of Gen Z respondents say marriage is important and even fewer prioritize having ...

In the decade since Pope Francis issued a wide-ranging document on pastoral care for the family, the Catholic Church in the U ...

Ten years after its publication, Pope Leo XIV praises the “valuable teachings” of Amoris Laetitia, and convokes presidents of Bishops’ Conferences to Rome in October 2026 for a meeting to discuss ways ...

Pope Leo called the document “a luminous message of hope regarding conjugal love and family life" adding that both “Amoris Laetitia” and St. John Paul II’s 1981 exhortation, “Familiaris Consortio,” ...

Editor's note: We are re-promoting this earlier editorial, in light of the news that San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy announced May 11 that he will convene a diocesan synod in October focused on ...

I greatly agree with Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago when he says the reasoning in Pope Francis’ two-year-old document on marriage and family Amoris Laetitia (The Joy of Love) is “nothing short of ...

The Church opened 2017 with another ride on the Amoris Laetitia roller coaster, with bishops issuing contradictory guidelines on the interpretation of its ambiguous eighth chapter. The most notable ...

Forty-seven Catholic bishops from across the U.S. will take part in a series of daylong seminars in mid-February aimed at helping them better understand and implement Pope Francis' 2016 apostolic ...