Pages tagged "Marriage and Family"
St. Cloud Times: Your Turn—Marriages Have Duty to Society
(by Jason Adkins, Editorial section) Too often, it seems, the good of marriage, if it is discussed at all, is confined to its private pur...
Continue reading…National Catholic Register: Archbishop Nienstedt Fights the Attempt to Redefine Marriage in Minnesota
The archbishop of St. Paul and Minneapolis discusses the true importance of God’s plan as a vote on the nature of marriage comes to a vot...
Continue reading…Design With a Purpose
In a 2007 Angelus address on the relationship between faith and reason, Pope Benedict XVI said, “When man limits his thoughts to only mat...
Continue reading…Sixty-Three Passionless Years
Why do people get married? Usually because they’re in love, right? Even today, with high rates of divorce and cohabitation, men and women...
Continue reading…What You Wanted to Know About “Sexual Complementarity” But Were Afraid to Ask
The term “sexual complementarity” is thrown around a lot in debates on marriage and sexuality, but it seems to be explained rarely. Thus,...
Continue reading…Spiritual Motherhood and Fatherhood
In Catholic teaching, every person on this earth has a spiritual call or ultimate purpose. The rightness of this “call” for you is basica...
Continue reading…The Kids May Not Be All Right
Moviemakers may like us to believe that “The Kids Are All Right,” but global evidence to the contrary is mounting. Mitch Pearlstein, a fo...
Continue reading…Promises of Marriage and the Self
If marriage is nothing more than love + commitment, it is inexplicable how our laws about marriage—and most importantly, our public cerem...
Continue reading…How DARE We Pray for Marriage? Really?
Written by Jason Adkins, Executive Director and General CounselResponding to all of the attacks on the Catholic Church for having the tem...
Continue reading…News Release: Statement of Minnesota Catholic Conference on Passage of Marriage Amendment
St. Paul, Minn. – The Minnesota Catholic Conference welcomed the passage this evening of SF 1308, which puts before the voters in Novembe...
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