Sister Helen Alford encourages Vatican prelates to support young people in marriage and family life

Sister Helen Alford, O.P., urged Church leaders to find ways to help young people embrace the challenges of marriage and family life during an extraordinary Vatican meeting on October 7.

Speaking at the first meditation of the gathering, which commemorates the tenth anniversary of Amoris Laetitia, Alford told the assembled bishops that young people should enter family life with the understanding that they will encounter fragility. She stated that through this fragility, they can discover unexpected sources of God's grace and a personal desire for holiness.