Catholic Sexual Teaching – An Invitation to Reality Lust and Counterfeit Sexuality We live in a throw-away society. Fast food and plastic plates — our culture is full of the cheap and easy. Unfortunately, this mentality bleeds into our sexuality. America is obsessed with sexual counterfeits. From the college hook-up culture to pornography to strip […] The post It’s Time For Catholics To Get Real About Sex appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

Marriage is truly an adventure that requires careful packing. After saying “yes,” you leave your childhood home, bid your farewells, say your see-you-laters (definitely not goodbyes), pack your entire life into a handful of suitcases, and embark on a new journey with your beloved. And guess what? Everything changes. It’s definitely one of life’s most […] The post How Is A Catholic Marriage With God At The Center Different? appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

Chaste dating is no walk in the park, but it is possible. We’ve been in relationships in the past that were unchaste and ended very badly. When we started courting, we didn’t want to repeat the same habits from our past relationships, so we had to do things differently.  But even so, this was not […] The post 3 Ways To Grow In Chastity Before Marriage appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

Dating is easy today, right? Hardly. It’s never been easy; but especially in a social media world—and after the pandemic, nothing can be taken for granted.  This is literally uncharted territory. And yet, human nature remains fundamentally the same in so many ways.  So, can Christian principles of virtuous living still speak to our current […] The post Help! Is A Healthy Dating Relationship Even Possible Anymore?! appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

Four years ago, my future seemed clear to me. I thought I’d spend my days living in small-town Minnesota and ministering to country parishes as their priest. I love my home state, and I love the people there very much, but God had other plans.   After leaving seminary, I struggled to know what God wanted […] The post 4 Lessons I Learned In Seminary That Help Me In Marriage appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

Online dating has never been more popular. In fact, the trend suggests that online dating may become the norm rather than a supplemental tactic.  A recent study showed 19% of internet users in the US said they were currently using an online dating app or platform. A further 27% of participants said they had used […] The post It’s Time For Catholics To Stop Believing These 5 Myths About Online Dating appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

Every year over a million children experience the divorce of their parents, and at least one-quarter of all young adults are children of divorce. And those numbers grow when you include people whose parents never married but later split up, or those whose parents divorce later in life (“gray divorce,” which is on the rise).  […] The post Five Things Children Of Divorce Want The Church To Know appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

oday’s video could be useful for illustrating the daily quarrels that we can all relate to. Although I myself am not married and am on my way towards the priesthood, more than once I have witnessed –with a bit of awe to be honest–the surprising capacity of loving couples to argue over the most ridiculous […] The post If This Is What Marriage Implies, Is It Really Worth It? The Strange Things That All Couples Fight Over appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

It doesn’t take long when first discovering the world of natural family planning to realize that most couples have a love/hate relationship with NFP.  The reasons to love it are obvious and the reasons to hate it are obvious.  It is a strange mix of sweet and sour that many couples struggle to find the […] The post The Sweet And Sour Of NFP (Natural Family Planning) appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more

Open to life.  We’ve all heard it, and for the most part, think we know what it means.  For those who are outside the Church, or perhaps those Catholics who have done little more than get their feet wet in this beautiful thing we call Catholicism, the idea of being “open to life” sounds suffocating – […] The post What Does Being Open To Life Really Mean? appeared first on Catholic-Link ..read more