• Open Letter signed by Ecumenical and Interreligious Leaders, Marriage and Religious Freedom: Fundamental Goods That Stand or Fall Together (2011)
  
• Open Letter signed by Ecumenical and Interreligious Leaders, The Protection of Marriage: A Shared Commitment (2010)
• Pastoral Letter Marriage: Love and Life in the Divine Plan (2009)
• Archbishop Joseph Kurtz, Statement on behalf of the Ad Hoc Committee for the Defense of Marriage concerning the Maine November 3rd vote on marriage (November 4, 2009)
• Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility from the Catholic Bishops of the United States (2007) – see nos. 10, 20, 46, 70, and 90.
• Ministry to Persons with a Homosexual Inclination: Guidelines for Pastoral Care (2006)
  
• Married Love and the Gift of Life (2006)
• USCCB Administrative Committee, Statement Promote, Preserve, Protect Marriage (issued 2003, reaffirmed 2006)
• Support for the Federal Marriage Amendment:

• “The Bishops’ President Urges Support for a Federal Constitutional Marriage Amendment” (April 3, 2006)
• “Bishops’ Administrative Committee Reaffirms Support For Federal Marriage Amendment”(March 15, 2006)
• “Catholic Bishops Strongly Urge the U.S. Senate To Support The Federal Marriage Amendment” (July 6, 2004)

• Between Man and Woman: Questions and Answers About Marriage and Same-Sex Unions (2003)
• Bishop Wilton Gregory, Statement welcoming CDF document [on the question of legal recognition of same-sex unions] (July 31, 2003)
• USCCB Committee on Marriage and Family and Committee on Domestic Policy, Statement on Same-Sex “Marriage” (1996)

Español:

• Carta Pastoral El Matrimonio: El amor y la vida en el plan divino (2009)
• Ministerio a las personas con inclinación homosexual: Directrices para la atencion pastoral (2007)
  
• El amor matrimonial y el don de la vida (2006)

• “Male and Female He Created Them” – CCC, nos. 369-373 & CCC, nos. 2331-2336
• The Sacrament of Matrimony – CCC, nos. 1601-1666
• Nature of the Family; Family and Society – CCC, nos. 2201-2213
• Chastity and Homosexuality – CCC, nos. 2357-2359
• The Love of Husband and Wife – CCC, nos. 2360-2379

• Pastoral Constitution Gaudium et spes (1965) – see nos. 47-52 [Español]

• For a compilation of selections form Pope Benedict’s teachings on marriage and family, see Family (USCCB, 2009)

Major documents:

• Encyclical Caritas in veritate (2009): see nos. 15, 44, and 51 (on the need for a “human ecology”)
• Apostolic Exhortation Sacramentum Caritatis (2007) : see nos. 27-29, “The Eucharist and Matrimony.”

Various addresses and homilies about marriage:

• Address to Engaged Couples (September 11, 2011)
• “Dear friends, all human love is a sign of the eternal Love that created us and whose grace sanctifies the decision made by a man and a woman to give each other reciprocal life in marriage. Live the period of your engagement in the trusting expectation of this gift.”
• Prayer Vigil at World Youth Day in Madrid, Spain (August 20, 2011)
• “The Lord calls many people to marriage, in which a man and a woman, in becoming one flesh (cf. Gen 2:24), find fulfillment in a profound life of communion. It is a prospect that is both bright and demanding. It is a project for true love which is daily renewed and deepened by sharing joys and sorrows, one marked by a complete self-giving.”
• Address to Participants in the Meeting Promoted by the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (May 13, 2011)
• Topics: the theology of the body, creation of man and woman, chastity
• Address to New Ambassador of Spain to the Holy See (April 16, 2011)
• Topics: need to aid men and women in their vocation of marriage
• Address to the Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church on their “ad limina” visit (April 7, 2011)
• Topics: marriage as sharing in the divine life, the importance of preaching about marriage
• Message on the occasion of a gathering of Latin American and Caribbean bishops responsible for the pastoral care of life and families (March 28, 2o11)
• Topics: God’s plan of love, family as a nursery of virtues
• Message to bishops of Brazil (Feb. 16, 2011)
• Topic: need for a defense of human ecology
• Address to new Austrian Ambassador (Feb. 3, 2011)
• Topics: religious freedom, families as a school of humanity
• Address to Tribunal of the Roman Rota (Jan. 22, 2011)
• Topics: the right to marry, the truth of marriage
• Address to Administrators of Rome for the Traditional New Year’s Greeting (Jan. 14, 2011)
• Topics: family as the original cell of society, educative role of the family
• Remarks upon receiving the new Hungarian ambassador (Dec. 2, 2010)
• Topics: marriage and the family as the foundation of society
• Homily at the Church of the Sagrada Familia, Spain (Nov. 7, 2010)
• Topics: marriage as the foundation of new life, need to care for families
• Address during a visit to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, Spain (Nov. 6, 2010)
• Topic: the interrelation of truth and freedom
• Address to families and young people during a Pastoral Visit to Palermo (Oct. 3, 2010)
• Topics: the family as fundamental for children, parents as collaborators with God
• Homily during Celebration of the Word with Social Pastoral Care Organizations, Fátima, Portugal (May 13, 2010)
• Topics: charitable work, marriage and the common good
• Address to Roman Curia (December 22, 2008)
• See references to “human ecology” and marriage as a “sacrament of creation”
• Address to Participants in the Forum of Family Associations (May 16, 2008)
• Topics: truth of marriage is rooted in truth of person, family as domestic church
• Address to the Participants in the International Convention on the Theme “Woman and Man, the Humanum in its Entirety” (February 9, 2008)
• Released on the 20th anniversary of John Paul II’s encyclical Mulieris Dignitatem
• Topics: gender, man and woman as the image of God, complementarity
• Message for the Celebration of the World Day of Peace (January 1, 2008) : see nos. 2-5
• Topics: the natural family and the promotion of peace
• Address to Participants in the International Congress on Natural Moral Law (February 12, 2007)
• Topics: the natural law, marriage as a partnership of life and love
• Angelus (February 4, 2007)
• Topics: Marriage, the protection of human life, vocations
• Address to the Members of the Tribunal of the Roman Rota (January 27, 2007)
• Topics: the danger of relativism, the inner truth of marriage
• Address to the Member of the Roman Curia at the Traditional Exchange of Christmas Greetings (December 22, 2006)
• See reflection on the Holy Father’s visit to Valencia, Spain
• Topics: demographic winter, ‘de facto’ unions, identity and gender
• Address at the Conclusion of a meeting with the Bishops of Switzerland (November 9, 2006)
• Topics: public and private ethics, freedom as autonomy
• Address to Participants in the Fourth National Ecclesial Convention in Verona (October 19, 2006) : especially the section “Civil and political responsibility of Catholics.”
• Topics: the Church’s role in the political arena, non-marital unions
• Address during the Vigil of Prayer on the Occasion of the Fifth World Meeting of Families in Valencia, Spain (July 8, 2006)
• Topics: saying ‘yes’ to one’s spouse and children, encouragement for parents
• Address to Participants in the Plenary Assembly of the Pontifical Council for the Family (May 13, 2006)
• Topics: divorce, same-sex unions, the family as the sanctuary of life
• Address to Members of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family on the 25th Anniversary of its Foundation (May 11, 2006)
• Highly recommended
• Topics: sexual difference, the truth of man, non-marital unions
• Encounter with the Youth of Rome in Preparation for the 21st World Youth Day (April 6, 2006)
• Topics: marriage in Scripture, living the truth of our human nature brings joy
• Address to the Members of the European People’s Party on the Occasion of the Study Days on Europe (March 30, 2006)
• Topics: Christianity in the public sphere, the dignity of the human person
• Address to Participants in the Ecclesial Diocesan Convention of Rome (June 6, 2005)
• Highly Recommended
• Topics: freedom as saying ‘yes’, the body as theology, sacramental marriage raises natural marriage to its fullest human expression

Major documents:

• Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, at the close of the Great Jubilee of the Year 2000 (2001): see nos. 10 and 47
• Letter to Women (1995) : see nos. 7-8
• Letter to Families (1994) : see nos. 6-12 and 17
• Apostolic Letter Mulieris dignitatem (1988) : see nos. 6-7
• Apostolic Exhortation Familiaris consortio (1981) : see nos. 3, 45-46, and 81

Various addresses and homilies about marriage:

• Homily during the Jubilee of Families (October 15, 2000) : see nos. 2, 3
• Topics: persons as relational, marital communion requires body and soul
• See also John Paul II’s Wednesday audiences (Sept. 5, 1979 – Nov. 28, 1984) collectively known as “the theology of the body.” Available online at EWTN’s website and at the Vatican website (includes all of John Paul II’s audiences).
• The most recent critical English translation is Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body, trans. Michael Waldstein (Boston: Pauline Books & Media), 2006.

• Instruction Dignitas Personae on Certain Bioethical Questions (2008)
• Letter on the Collaboration of Men and Women in the Church and in the World (2004)
• Considerations Regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons (2003)
• Some Considerations Concerning the Response to Legislative Proposals on the Non-Discrimination of Homosexual Persons (1992)
• Instruction Donum Vitae on respect for human life in its origin and on the dignity of procreation (1987)
• Letter on the Pastoral Care of Homosexual Persons (1986)
• Persona Humana: Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics (1975)

Español:

• Instrucción Dignitas Personae sobre algunas cuestiones de bioética (2008)
• Carta sobre la colaboración del hombre y la mujer en la Iglesia y el mundo (2004)
• Consideraciones acerca de los proyectos de reconocimiento legal de las uniones entre personas homosexuales (2003)
• Instrucción Donum Vitae sobre el respeto de la vida humana naciente y la dignidad de la procreación (1987)
• Carta sobre la atención pastoral a las personas homosexuales (1986)
• Persona Humana: Declaración acerca de ciertas cuestiones de ética sexual (1975)

• Family, Marriage and “De Facto” Unions (2000)
• Declaration regarding the Resolution of the European Parliament dated March 16, 2000, making de facto unions, including same sex unions, equal to the family (2000)

Español:

• Familia, Matrimonio y “Uniones de Hecho” (2000)
• Declaracion acerca de la Resolucion del Parlamento Europeo del 16/3/2000 sobre equiparacion entre familia y “uniones de hecho”, incluso homosexuales (2000)

Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church (2004)

• See nos. 144-148, The Equal Dignity of All People and the “Equality in Difference” between Man and Woman
• See nos. 209-254, Marriage and Family

• Importance of the family for the person (no. 212)
• Importance of the family for society (nos. 213-214)
• Marriage as the foundation of the family (nos. 215-218)
• Sexual identity, difference, and complementarity (no. 224)
• Homosexual unions (nos. 228-229)

Español: Compendio de la Doctrina Social de la Iglesia (2005)

• Ve nos. 144-148, La igual dignidad de todas las personas
• Ve nos. 209-254, La familia, Célula vital de la sociedad

• La importancia de la familia para la persona (no. 212)
• La importancia de la familia para la sociedad (nos. 213-214)
• El matrimonio, fundamento de la familia (nos. 215-218)
• La identidad sexual, la diferencia, y la complementariedad (no. 224)
• Las uniones homosexuales (nos. 228-229