Vatican City, Oct 18, 2025 / 10:00 am

At a time when the world offers “many counter-examples” of what a healthy marriage should look like, Pope Leo XIV has urged couples to look to Saints Louis and Zélie Martin — the parents of St. Thérèse of Lisieux — as a model of a joyful and holy marriage.

In an Oct. 18 message marking the 10th anniversary of the Martins’ canonization, Pope Leo said their lives show “marriage as a path to holiness” and provide an example that the world today urgently needs of how to help one’s children discover God’s “boundless love and tenderness and strive to make them love Him in return as He deserves.”

“Among the vocations to which men and women are called by God, marriage is one of the noblest and most elevated,” the pope wrote.

Yet, he added, “in these trou

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