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Home: Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGE Current Issues: Marriage and Family: LINKS_PAGEArticles:The Family and the Constitution - DAVID WAGNERThe family occupies a precarious position in the liberal democracies of today. Read more... The Knot That Can’t Be Tied: Secular, Natural and Sacramental Marriage - Mark LoweryMan’s sexual energies are of extraordinary power and complexity. Is this energy something we can use however we wish, or is there some objective standard to which this energy should be conformed? The Western tradition, like many other traditions, has consistently held that there is such an objective standard, and it is the reality called “marriage.” Read more... The Latest War Against Marriage - Maggie GallagherToday thanks to a myriad of sociological studies showing that men, women, and children are better off, not worse off, in committed two-parent families, the campaign against marriage has metamorphosed once again. Increasingly unable to make the case for the sexually liberated single life or the superiority of the single-parent household, the antimarriage warriors now celebrate what they call “family diversity.” Read more... The Law of the Gift: Understanding the Two Sides of Love - Edward SriHow does a person know if he is in a relationship of authentic, committed love or just in another disappointing romance that will not stand the test of time? Read more... The Magnificence of Marriage - MITCHELL KALPAKGIANThe prominent theme in Marriage is that Christian matrimony demands the highest, the best, and the noblest for both man and woman-not the lowest common denominator. 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 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 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... Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 [>>] Related Categories:
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