The instruction of the CDF, Dignitas Personae, takes up the question of what could be done with the frozen embryos that are already in existence. It rejects the use of these embryos for research or for the treatment of disease because this would be contrary to their dignity as persons. It further takes up the [...]
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Thursday, September 30th, 2010Rational Civil Authority and Marriage
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010How should a rational civil authority regulate marriage, supposing that the state does not accept a particular religious revelation or tradition as definitive, and that the citizens of the state recognize various religious authorities? Since most of us live in civil states like this, the question is not unimportant for us. This is the actual [...]
St. Paul on Sexual Intercourse as Personal Act
Thursday, February 25th, 2010Paul: Do you not know that the immoral will not inherit the kingdom of God? You were cleansed of all this in the name of the Lord Jesus and in the Spirit of our God. Cor: All things are lawful for me. Now that I have become spiritual through the Spirit, these things are a [...]
Married Saints – Why so few?
Thursday, July 23rd, 2009Why are there so few married saints? And especially, why are there so few who were canonized precisely as married persons? Most married persons who have been canonized have not been canonized precisely as married persons, but as martyrs, or as religious or widows in the case of those who devoted themselves to the religious [...]
Is Marriage for the Weak
Sunday, February 8th, 2009The Vocation of Marriage Is marriage only for the weak? Are only those called to marriage who don't have a strong enough will to give themselves totally to Christ and his Church in virginity or celibacy? It could certainly seem so from St. Paul: "If his passions are strong, and it has to be, let [...]
Why not marrying may seem selfish
Monday, September 1st, 2008"It is inconceivable, unfathomable, that it would be Our Lord's will that a young adult, who is dedicated to getting closer to Him and is perfectly able to accept the marriage/family vocation, rejects this vocation and chooses to remain 'single.' " I did not invent this statement. It is a statement someone actually wrote. I [...]
Single vocation?
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Someone was asking recently whether it is true that there are only two vocations–marriage and religious life–and that being single isn't really a vocation. Actually, when you get down to it, there is only one vocation: the vocation to love. In Familiaris Consortio, Pope John Paul says: 11. God created man in His own image [...]
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