So the culture wants to depart from the truth of marriage. This is not new. The nature of marriage has been a point of controversy for thousands of years. In fact, some of the Church’s greatest, most venerated saints gave their lives defending marriage. Would you do the same?...
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Over the past half century or so, the institution of marriage has fallen on hard times. It’s not for lack of trying, though. The wedding industry is big business, taking up public consciousness for what seems to be all summer every summer (and year round on Pinterest….ladies). But...
Last week, it was contraception’s 50th legal anniversary: on June 7, 1965, the Supreme Court ruled in the Griswold v. Connecticut case that banning contraception was unconstitutional. Rolling Stone published an article celebrating the news, listing the five ways birth control has “changed America for the better.” Birth control...
A lot of things change when you have your first baby, including your experience of going to church. For the most part babies are easy to soothe and you will be able to pray during Mass. Then one day your sweet, easy to soothe baby at church turns into a...
Rarely has there been a more misunderstood word than chastity. The term that’s practically universally thought to be synonymous with “abstinence” has, in reality, and incredibly richer and deeper definition. Abstinence is merely refraining from doing an action — just a plain “no” — whereas chastity is essentially, “the successful integration...
