Is your marriage vocation more challenging than ever before and you need something to help restore better communication and trust that once flourished between you? Retrouvaille of Arizona is hosting its next weekend retreat for married couples looking to find their way to rebuild trust and better communication in their relationship. Retrouvaille is a French [...]
Encounter the Good News of Love, Sex, Marriage, and the Body! Do you have a body? A human body? A male or female body? Then the Theology OF THE BODY is for YOU – not just for those who are married, dating, or engaged! Young or old, whatever stage or state in life, have you ever wondered: Who am I? What is my purpose and ultimate destiny? What does true love look like and how am I to treat others? Why do I do things that hurt myself and others, even when I don’t truly want that result? What does it mean to suffer? Why is there evil in the world, and can it be defeated? What happens to me and those I love after death? Will heaven truly satisfy? Why does the Church care so much about love, sex, marriage, and the body? Is there more to sex than fleeting pleasure? Is there more to marriage than ‘until death do us part’, or worse, divorce or dissatisfaction? Is there more to me than meets the eye? If these questions are your questions, we propose that Pope John Paul II’s Theology of the Body offers the most compelling, adequate, and truly satisfying answers out there! We invite you to encounter the GOOD NEWS of love, sex, marriage, and the body – the TRULY GOOD NEWS of JESUS CHRIST – and allow your hearts to be ignited with the flame of human and divine love!
On the feast of St. Joseph, March 19, 2016, Pope Francis issued his Apostolic Exhortation on Love in the Family — Amoris Laetitia in Latin, in English “The Joy of Love.” In this Apostolic Exhortation, there is much to move the heart and fire the imagination. Some parts are exceptionally beautiful and will leave you with a hunger for more as well as a desire to return to them often.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the release of Pope Paul VI's Encyclical Letter Humanae Vitae, On the Regulation of Birth, we are sharing this four-part series from Bishop Olmsted, "The Blessing of a Fruitful Life."
This story by Gina Keating was originally published in The Catholic Sun, the newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix. When Catherine and Michael Clancy were engaged last year they had an unusual request for wedding guests. “We asked them to donate to the Charity and Development Appeal. We had everything we needed,” Michael said. [...]
A Pastoral Statement of the Arizona Catholic Conference Bishops A growing movement in our country, bolstered by recent legal decisions in some states as well as from government actions taken in several other countries, favors making same-sex unions the legal equivalent of marriage. In response to this movement, we believe Catholics and all citizens [...]
