Marriages, both legal and religious, are declining globally, a trend that is causing concern within the Catholic Church. Cardinal Kevin Farrell, prefect of the Dicastery for the Laity, the Family and Life, highlighted the issue as he opened the third day of a Vatican conference "Ten Years after Amoris Laetitia". The event runs until 14 October and brings together Pope Leo XIV, bishops, couples and experts. Divorce, new forms of cohabitation, and dominating cultural attitudes that leave many young people alone or afraid of commitment are among the reasons given. Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, president of the Australian Bishops' Conference, warned against seeing young people as a homogeneous group, arguing that the difficulty is cultural rather than organizational. Social media, he observed, prioritises immediate happiness over fidelity, while personal wounds caused by divorce, domestic violence and Church scandals also weigh heavily. The evidence of stable marriages is critical and should be publicly recognized. According to Bombay Auxiliary Bishop Stephen Fernandes, young people continue to yearn for love but are skeptical that it can survive. In India, he noted, caste, dowries, inequality and violence against women remain significant obstacles. The Church, he concluded, must first listen and propose marriage as a covenant and a gift, rather than a catalog of prohibitions. It must also give voice to couples who can say, "Love can last".