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Home: Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Manhattan Declaration: The Manifesto That's Shaking America - Sandro MagisterIt's been endorsed by Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox leaders, united in defending life and the family. Read more... The Marriage Covenant - FATHER WILLIAM SAUNDERSGiven our understanding of marriage and marital love, we can readily see that the most beautiful expression of love in marriage is marital love, or physical love, or sexual intercourse, or conjugal love — whatever term one prefers. Read more... The Marriage Debate I: confusions about 'equality' and 'discrimination' - George WeigelAmerica can't arrive at a serious answer to this question — Should government redefine marriage to include same-sex partnerships? — by appealing to equality. Read more... The Moral Birds and the Bees - Roger ScrutonIn the England of the Forties, when my parents were courting, terms like "moral," "decent," and "clean living" applied primarily to sexual behavior. Immorality meant sleeping around (and how innocent the word "sleeping" now sounds!); indecency meant unsolicited advances; dirtiness meant whatever put the sexual object before the loving subject. Read more... The Necessary Amendment - Robert H. BorkWithin the next two or three years, the Supreme Court will almost certainly climax a series of state court rulings by creating a national constitutional right to homosexual marriage. Read more... The New Singleness - Maggie GallagherIn the cover story in a recent Atlantic magazine, Kate Bolick declares her liberation from marriage: "It's time to embrace new ideas about romance and family - and to acknowledge the end of 'traditional' marriage as society’s highest ideal." Read more... The Origin and Destiny of Marriage and Family - RABBI DANIEL LAPINIf the American family were an airplane, the Federal Aviation Administration would long since have grounded it due to the large number that have crashed. Read more... The Paternal Order of Priests - Scott HahnThere is a famous homily of St. Augustine in which he refers to the fathers in his audience as "my fellow bishops." He startles his congregation, which certainly included many busy fathers of families, by telling them to be faithful to the duties of the priesthood. Read more... The Patriarchal Family in History - Christopher DawsonThe family is not a product of culture; it is, as Malinowski shows, “the starting point of all human organization” and “the cradle of nascent culture.” Read more... The Politics of Family Destruction - Stephen BaskervilleStephen Baskerville explains how the government actually encourages divorce. Read more... The Quiet Family Killer: Pornography and Marriage - Patrick F. FaganMost men, including doctors, have not the foggiest notion that the wives develop deep psychological wounds, commonly reporting feelings of betrayal, loss, mistrust, devastation, and anger at the discovery of their husbands' use of pornography, especially Internet use. Read more... The Real Pregnancy Crisis - Bradford WilcoxNext time you hear a college-educated academic or advocate talking about marriage and motherhood, do as they do, not as they say. Read more... The Romance of Domesticity - Nathan SchlueterAs with Manicheanism in the time of Augustine, so in our own time there lurks a dangerous heresy that twists both the truth and a good many lives. I call that heresy Romanticism. Read more... The Spousal Secret - Mike AquilinaThe secret to being a good husband. Read more... The Struggle Over Marriage - Robert P. GeorgeRecently, the editor of Public Discourse sat down with Robert P. George to discuss the state of the marriage debate. While supporters of same-sex “marriage” claim that history is on their side, it turns out that supporters of traditional marriage have more reasons for hope than they may realize. Read more... The Top Ten Myths of Divorce - David PopenoeA discussion of the most common misinformation about divorce. Read more... The Top Ten Myths of Marriage - David PopenoeA discussion of the most common misinformation about marriage. Read more... The True Meaning of Marriage - Archbishop Timothy Michael DolanThe stampede is on. Our elected senators who have stood courageous in their refusal to capitulate on the state's presumption to redefine marriage are reporting unrelenting pressure to cave-in. Read more... The Unitive and Procreative Dimensions of Conjugal Love - FATHER WILLIAM SAUNDERSRecall that in two previous issues, we have examined our belief concerning the sacrament of marriage and the beautiful expression of marital love, which is both unitive and procreative. Read more... The Wisdom of Upholding Tradition with Respect to Marriage - Sherif Girgis, Ryan T. Anderson and Robert P. GeorgeThere is a reason why conjugal unions have been distinguished from all others since antiquity. Read more... Together and in Love - Michaelann MartinWe have learned that it is so important to keep our marriage alive and well. Just as we feed our souls with prayer and our bodies with food, so too we need to feed our marriage. Read more... True love — and sacrifice - Father Raymond J. de SouzaThe 50th edition of the New York Film Festival honoured two movies that are not the usual avant garde festival fare. Read more... Truly priceless St. Valentine's Day gifts - Rick Fitzgibbons, M.D.Based on working with thousands of couples over the past 34 years, I would like to offer suggestions for priceless gifts that you can give to your spouse this Valentine's Day. These are the gifts of virtues that will strengthen your personality, marriage, children and society. Read more... Unhappily Ever After - KAREN S. PETERSONSeventy-eight-year-old psychologist Judith Wallerstein does not look like a rebel. Read more... Virtue and The Art of Living - Edward P. SriI'll never forget the instructor's last words: "And if you happen to fall out of your kayak, don't try to stand up in the river." Read more... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 [>>] Related Categories:
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