Marriage & Family

By Robert B. Greving, Crisis Magazine - Fr. Martin is, I believe, trying to equate the two phrases, preferring “differently ordered” because “objectively disordered” is, in his words, “needlessly hurtful.” The problem is, the two phrases cannot be equated.

By David Carlin, The Catholic Thing - prevailing ideas in America about children.. First, there is the idea that we should have only a few of them, if we have any at all: small families, not large families… Second, there is the commonly accepted idea that if one is unhappy in one’s marriage, one should dissolve it…

By Phil Lawler, Catholic Culture - Liberal Catholics are badly rattled by Bishop Thomas Paprocki’s decree that Catholics engaged in same-sex marriage cannot receive the sacraments in his Springfield diocese. So badly rattled, in fact, that…