Shacking Up, Gay Marriage and Now Wed Leases: Is Marriage as the Larger...
Shacking up, gay marriage and now wed leases. Given all this, I’m inclined to say as so many people do these days Why bother? A reader sent me a copy of the Washington Post opinion piece excerpted...
View ArticleDivorce, Catholic Divorce and Following Christ as Counter-Cultural Living
Divorce is one of the plagues of modern America. It is the root cause of much of the misery of our modern life. The damage it does to our children and their children and their children’s children is...
View ArticleVatican Says No to Communion for Divorced and Remarrieds
Rumors aside, it appears that Pope Francis is not going to overturn the 2,000-year-old Church teaching on the sanctity of Holy Matrimony. The Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith,...
View ArticleVatican: Place the Family at the Center of all Concerns
May 15 is the United Nation’s International Day of the Family. Monsignor Vicenzo Paglia, the president of the Pontifical Council on the Family, will go to New York to address the United Nations for...
View ArticleGuns. Blaming Father Terra for Trying to Defend Himself. And Raising Up...
I’m proud of you. Public Catholic readers have not gone off the deep end, blaming Father Joseph Terra for the actions of the man who beat him and shot and killed his brother priest, Father Kenneth...
View ArticleFamily: I am Sister Lily’s Granddaughter. Where I’m From, that Counts for a Lot.
Where I’m From: Daddy worked here. I don’t remember if I told you this, but my grandmother was a Pentecostal Holiness Preacher. She had a radio show (this was back in the 1940s and early 50s) that...
View ArticleKids Who Won’t Mind. What’s Wrong with this Picture?
I’m under the weather today, so I’ve spent the afternoon watching the Spielberg version of War of the Worlds. Every time I watch this movie, I end up losing interest in it because the kids are such...
View ArticleHome and Family are Not Outmoded. They are Eternal Truths on Which People are...
A long time ago in a land not so far away, married couples often stayed married to one another, despite their disagreements and problems “for the children’s sake.” It was assumed that destroying a...
View ArticleDueling Bishops: The Synod in Their Own Words
I’ve put together a set of comments from the various cardinals about the on-going Synod of the Family. I think it’s best right now to let them speak in their own words, rather than try to interpret...
View ArticleObergefell Destroyed Marriage as a Legal Construct. It Did Not Destroy Marriage.
He who made them in the first place, made them man and woman. For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother and go to his wife and the two shall become one. So they are no longer two, but...
View ArticlePope Changes Annulment Process. What Does it Mean?
My ignorance of canon law is showing. Pope Francis issued two Apostolic letters, which are edicts affecting the entire Church this morning. These letters reform the process by which members of the...
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