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Full Classrooms and Empty Cribs

We cannot overlook the fact that in June, Pope Leo XIV wanted to stop in Spain—even at the risk of delaying the start of the events—to bless hundreds of babies and young children.
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Paloma López Campos

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courtship

Explaining courtship to young people

Living the phases of a courtship properly: knowing and valuing the other and adapting to my life in all senses, is key to not having "avoidable surprises" in marriage.

José María Contreras

14 Feb 2022
dreams

God's dreams

To love life is to pursue the dream that God had when he created human beings. He dreamed us in full communion with one another.

Lucía Simón

10 Feb 2022
intelligence and partners

Intelligence and couple relationship

Who is smarter, the person who knows how to do complicated mathematical and financial calculations, or the one who manages to have a united and happy family where the wife, husband and children are at ease at home?

José María Contreras

16 Jan 2022
courtship

The adventure of being engaged

Living a "successful" courtship is not about ending up marrying the other person, but about preparing both of you to be good spouses.

Lucía Simón

5 Jan 2022
amoris laetitia family

Saints, clues and books to live the 'Amoris Laetitia Family Year'.

Last Sunday, Pope Francis wrote a Letter to families in this Year of the Family Amoris Laetitia, with the aim of encouraging husbands and wives to continue to walk with greater faith. Some testimonies of holy couples or couples in the process of beatification are recalled here, and useful readings are outlined in the days leading up to the arrival of their Majesties from the East.

Rafael Miner

2 Jan 2022

marriage

Christian marriage: transforming human love into supernatural love

The author reviews some of the main keys to the vocation to marriage, which are found in the teachings of St. Josemaría Escrivá.

Rafael de Mosteyrín Gordillo

26 Dec 2021

Types of love and feelings

Even if the feeling is lost, love is not lost. If that were so, the human being would not be free because he would not be able to choose his loves since they depend on something uncontrollable: feeling.

José María Contreras

14 Dec 2021
FotoLeireConHijoLander

Every Life Matters mobilizes this Sunday with Leire's story

Leire, a young woman from San Sebastian, had an abortion in 2009 under the slogan "we give birth, we decide". In 2010 she had a miscarriage, which she considers closely related to the first one, and little by little, she decided to oppose this "destruction",

Rafael Miner

27 Nov 2021
corny love

The importance of knowing how to love

All too often, we see couples embarking on a marriage without really knowing what love is and what it means to love another person (includes audio). 

José María Contreras

4 Nov 2021
pregnancy

40 days for life: "Our presence is a reminder that there are alternatives to abortion".

40 days that have saved more than a hundred lives. From the beginning of the campaign, on September 22 until October 31, dozens of people have gathered in front of clinics where abortions are performed with one purpose: to pray for the women who go to these centers and, whenever they decide to approach, to offer them resources and possibilities to carry their pregnancy and be able to have their son or daughter.

Maria José Atienza

31 Oct 2021

Pope's Travels

The day I was a Swiss Guard

Papua New Guinea, second stop on Pope Francis' trip
Mongolia

“You don’t need to be rich or powerful, just have love,” says the Pope in Mongolia
Pope Francis Bahrain

Pope Francis in Marseille, plurality as a resource
Hungary Pope

Hungary: Pope Francis' next destination
Pope Congo's journey

Poverty, tensions and women: challenges ahead of the Pope's visit to Africa
Pope's trip to Congo and Sudan

The Catholic Church in Congo and South Sudan
Congo

The Pope travels to the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan. “Mbote François”, Okay, now, welcome!
Pope Francis Bahrain

Pope Francis and initiatives for dialogue with Islam
Pope Francis Bahrain

Interreligious and ecumenical dialogue, a weapon to defuse any conflict

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Santiago Leyra Curiá
Centenary of Our Lady of Fatima, 2017

Miracles of the Virgin Mary and nature: 'the sun danced', snowfalls, flowers…

Francisco Otamendi
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