Know That Your Marriage
Will Stand.
A free five-minute diagnostic for engaged Catholic couples, drawn from twenty years inside the marriage tribunal. Find out where your foundation is strong, and where it needs an honest conversation before your wedding day.
Take the Marriage Readiness Diagnostic →Three kinds of people, one common ground.
Engaged Couples
Who want their wedding day to be the beginning of a marriage that lasts.
Parish Priests
Who walk couples through preparation and want better instruments to do so.
Marriage Ministers
Who carry the weight of forming the next generation of Catholic marriages.
Resources, drawn from twenty years on the bench.
The Marriage Readiness Diagnostic
A free five-minute self-assessment, drawn from canon law and tribunal practice, that helps engaged couples see what they need to see before the wedding day.
The Forthcoming Book
Before You Say "I Do" at the Altar, a Marriage Tribunal Judge's Essential Catholic Marriage Preparation Manual, in final preparation for release.
The Teaching Channel
Each week, a short canonical and pastoral teaching from the tribunal seat. Soon to launch on YouTube.
Free Resources for Couples, Priests, and Parishes
Added over time. Built for those who want to strengthen Catholic marriage preparation in their care.
A word about why I built this.
Every nullity case I write tells a story that began at an altar, where two people said "I do" without truly knowing what those words required of them. That is why I am here.
In twenty years on the marriage tribunal, the first seventeen as Judicial Vicar of the Diocese of Enugu and the present three as President of the Interdiocesan Marriage Tribunal serving Enugu, Awgu, and Nsukka, I have read thousands of marriage cases. Nearly every one carried, somewhere in its history, warning signs the couple themselves did not recognize before their wedding day.
That conviction is what this work exists to answer. Not to discourage marriages, but to help engaged Catholic couples enter the sacrament with their eyes open, their consent free, their capacity sound, their intention right, and their unity real.
Read the full story →Begin where every strong marriage begins.
Five honest minutes. Twenty questions. A pastoral readout you can bring into the conversation with your fiancé(e) and the priest preparing you for the sacrament.
Take the Marriage Readiness Diagnostic →