Love Becomes Covenant: A Catholic Theology of Dating, Discernment, and Marriage

What does it mean to love someone well before promising to love them for life?

In Love Becomes Covenant, Andrew Beal brings Catholic theology into the ordinary realities of dating, discernment, engagement, and marriage. Drawing from personal journals and his relationship with the woman who became his wife, he traces how romantic longing matures into a love shaped by freedom, truth, self-gift, and faith.

At the heart of this journey are questions that hope alone cannot answer: How do we distin...