Healthy Relationships

Resources for Promoting Peace in Intimate Relationships

At Catholics For Family Peace, we don't just want to educate about domestic abuse...our mission is much brighter, much more hopeful than that!
We hope to keep this page full of resources for to help you build healthy relationships in your life, and to encourage others to do the same.

30-Day Challenge for Men

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This "new 30-day challenge maps out daily actions for men hoping to live authentic masculine Catholicism by reclaiming the identities of sons, brothers, fathers, and spouses."

National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families

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The National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families has a number of excellent resources for building and maintaining a healthy marriage relationship.

Healthy Dating leads to
Healthy Marriage

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Also from The National Resource Center for Healthy Marriage and Families, this search results page leads to a plethora of resources on promoting healthy dating relationships, with an emphasis on young adults and teens.

Five Actions You Can Take to Protest Fifty Shades Movies

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The National Center on Sexual Exploitation ran a campaign in the beginning of February protesting the third installment in the "Fifty Shades" movie trilogy.
Instead of supporting the most recent of these movies that glorifies violence and horrifying sexual, emotional, and physical abuse, NCOSE invites us to donate $50 (or whatever we can afford) to a domestic violence shelter, thereby supporting women in real relationships that abuse power and utilize coercive control.
Click on the article to see what else you can do to protest 50 Shades and support real relationships!

Prayer Intentions for
Healthy Teen Dating

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Our Catholics For Family Peace office created these prayer intentions for you to include at your parish and in your personal prayers.
Please use them, share them, and most of all, pray them!

Changing Minds: Preventing & Healing Childhood Trauma
State Policy Guide

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Futures Without Violence, in communion with other groups, has published this guide for helping us to prevent and respond to the realities of childhood trauma. We invite you to take a look at their resources for yourself!

For Your Marriage: Form your family and your marriage
according to loving God's plan for the marriage covenant

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For Your Marriage is an initiative started by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 2007. The initiative's goal is to promote and provide resources for all people to "understand and live God's plan for happy, holy marriages by providing educational and spiritual resources" (from the ForYourMarriage.org "About Us" page).
Resources include formation and guidance on dating, engaged, and married couples, as well as family life and parenting. We encourage you to explore the plethora of resources and wealth of wisdom.