Two Become Family: Restoring Confidence in Catholic Marriage and Family life
Renzo and Monica share stories, advice, and encouragement for everyday Catholics navigating the human side of a faith-filled marriage. They both bring a voice of joyful solidarity from their experience living in the trenches with a growing family. Their honesty and witness offer hope to couples who want to find confidence in their vocation to marriage through a candid and faithful discussion.
Renzo and Monica Ortega are Catholic ministry leaders, podcast hosts, authors, and national speakers. Their latest title, Lovemaking: How to Talk about Sex with Your Spouse was published through Ave Maria Press. They host the popular marriage podcast Two Become Family and speak nationally for the St. John Paul II Foundation’s Together in Holiness conference series.
Their testimonies of faith, marriage, and parenting have been featured by the National Catholic Register, the Knights of Columbus, and Augustine Institute. They are coauthors of the children’s devotional Go to Joseph for Children, and Renzo is also the author of the men’s devotional Go to Joseph: 10 Day Preparation for Consecration to St. Joseph.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 52 minutes
- Episodes
- 177
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
Homeschooling and Sheltering Our Kids
In today's episode Renzo is in rare form as we talk about some of our goals in "sheltering" our kids from the world while also preparing them for things they may be exposed to. We talk about chastity…
REWIND: Am I Talking Too Much?
We've had a pretty eventful week so we are reposting episode 16! You can never talk about communication too much. Keep us in your prayers and we will be back next week!
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Navigating Hypermasculinity (Reacting to Gavin Ortlund Part 1)
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Parenting For Success
In today's episode, we talk about this year's Triduum experience and how we help our foster autonomy and independence. Spoiler alert, it all comes down to talking and planning things out as a couple!…
Tradwives Aren't Real
In today’s episode, we talk about the new trad wives social media trend and the pressures that women might feel to live up to an unreasonable standard. Let’s jump in!
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The Problem with Church Programs
In today’s episode, we share about what we’ve learned in our 15 years of youth ministry and try to empower parents to embrace their role in raising their kids in the faith. Let's jump in!
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10 Things We've Done in 10 Years of Parenting
In today's episode we celebrate 10 years of parenthood with 10 things we learned/do/think that has worked with our kids in the past 10 years. This DOESN'T mean we know everything, but we are at least…
How Wives Can Do Better
In today’s episode, we look at the complex needs of marriages and how wives can support their husbands. We talk about the kind of women’s content that is out there, and the lack of guidance spouses g…
What is Red Pill and the Manosphere and Why Catholics Should Care
In today's episode, we tackle a fairly unknown topic that is having an influence on a lot of young men. We talk about the origins of the red pill/manosphere community, why it's appealing, and how it'…
REWIND: Rehabilitating Chastity
Today we have a special rewind episode! This rewind is because we are still exhausted from all the traveling this month. We will be back next week! For now, enjoy this discussion! Let's jump in.
We're Not Compatible (We Took Jordan Peterson's Personality Assessment)
In today's episode, we see what Jordan Peterson has to say about our compatibility. We took his Understand Myself personality assessment and we go over some of our results and what the implications a…
How Healing Who We Are Changes How We Love
In today's episode, we dive into the masculine and feminine identities. Monica shares about her first-time as a stay-at-home mom and what drove her to return to work. Then we unpack how recognizing t…
Why Sexual Freedom Doesn't Mean Repression or Elimination of Your Sex Drive
In today's episode, we dive back into the topic of what sexual freedom should look like for husbands. However, this time we start of with some philosophy, some more philosophy, and then some Theology…
Celebration, BIG Announcement, and answering listener questions LIVE!
In today’s episode we celebrate 100 of episodes of Pre-Cana with the Pope and we make a few BIG announcements! We react to our very first episode, reflect on our mission, and answer some LIVE questio…
Why Do Men Want To Have Sex All The Time (Reacting to the Catholic Gentleman)
In today's episode, we reflect and react to clips from an episode of the Catholic Gentleman titles: What women don't understand about men. We tackle some of the ideas around men and their biological…
Is Porn In Your Marriage Really a Big Deal? (Reflecting on the Whatever Podcast)
Is porn a big deal? Why or why not?
In this episode, we listen to guests on The Whatever Podcast debate pornography use within relationships and add our two cents.
Listen to the full debate: Destiny, J…
REWIND: Why Husbands NEED to Share the Mental Load
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Thank you all for your ongoing support. We love what we do and pray that it is a blessing to you and your families. If you are benefitting in some way from what we're doing, her…
An Episode Full of Banter and Unsolicited Advice
In today's episode, we banter! Renzo talks about his latest jiu-jitsu milestone, we ponder the delicate balance of encouraging kid's independence while maintaining high expectations, and we go on abo…
Why This Communication Style Changed Our Marriage (Reacting to Therapy in a Nutshell)
In today’s episode we react to therapy in a nutshell. What if we told you that communication was deeply influenced by an unseen cultural force - 'Ask Culture' versus 'Guess Culture'. This concept cha…
Why You Don’t Need Sex To Be Happily Married (Reacting to Ven. Fulton Sheen's World First Love)
In this episode, we talk about sex while we navigate the profound depths of Mary and Joseph's heart-driven union. We discuss their extraordinary relationship and unravel the spiritual richness of the…