“The family, which is founded and given life by love, is a community of persons: of husband and wife, of parents and children, of relatives. Its first task is to live with fidelity the reality of communion in a constant effort to develop an authentic community of persons. …without love the family is not a community of persons and, in the same way, without love the family cannot live, grow and perfect itself as a community of persons.”
Pope John Paul II (1981)
Apostolic Exhortation on the Family, #18
Following is a list of Catholic websites that promote and support marriage and family life:
Apostolic Exhortation on the Role of the Christian Family in the Modern World:
Archdiocese of Washington
https://adw.org/living-the-faith/marriage-family/visible-sign/
https://adw.org/living-the-faith/marriage-family/family/
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops
https://www.usccb.org/committees/laity-marriage-family-life-youth
Vatican Dicastery for Laity Family and Life
www.vatican.va/roman_curia/pontifical_councils/family-index.html
http://www.laityfamilylife.va/content/laityfamilylife/en/il-dicastero.html
National Association of Catholic Family Life Ministers (NACFLM)
