What does marriage mean to you?
Consider these words: procreative, covenant, sacramental, definitive, joyful.
Those are some of the ways in which the Catholic Church explains its teaching on marriage, between a man and a woman.
"Marriage is a lifelong partnership of the whole of life, of mutual and exclusive fidelity, established by mutual consent between a man and a woman, and ordered towards the good of the spouses and the procreation of offspring," as written in the U.S. Catholic bishops' pastoral letter on marriage, "Love and Life in the Divine Plan."