Toward the Spirit: Why Faithful Catholics Need to Recover the Patristic and Scholastic Vision of Marriage
Faithful Catholics today find themselves in an unusual position.
On one side stands a secular culture that has largely abandoned Christian morality altogether. Marriage has been redefined, chastity ridiculed, fertility treated as a burden, and self-denial dismissed as unhealthy. Against these errors, faithful Catholics rightly defend the Church's teaching.
Yet another danger confronts us—one far more subtle.
It is possible to defend Catholic morality while gradually losing sight of the theological vision that once animated it.
We may continue to affirm the Church's teachings while forgetting the spiritual principles that gave those teachings their shape. We may preserve the conclusions while neglecting the foundations.
This danger is especially evident in the realm of marriage.
The Catholic Church continues to teach the sanctity of marriage, the evil of contraception, the goodness …More