Category: Marriage

Why It’s Great to Be a Young Catholic | Crisis Magazine

Faith, Marriage

Why It’s Great to Be a Young Catholic | Crisis Magazine.

Three reasons why it’s great to be a young Catholic, says this writer, are:

  1. Sex, sex and sexy sex.
    An outstanding explanation of the Church’s teaching about Holy Sex: “[It’s] not safe and sterile, but rather it is so dangerous, so very potent and powerful, that it should only occur between two individuals who have made dire oaths not to run away from it. She says — restating a truth humanity has forgotten — that sex creates life, and that it is mind-blowingly adventurous for this very reason: Two will become one flesh, and that flesh will learn to walk, love, burn with fire for God, die, and spend eternity with Him.”
  2. The lack of ‘youthiness’  “[I]f the youth are simply human beings in the state of being young, then all they want is exactly what all human beings want: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Sure, they might want it with a more obnoxious passion, and with a painful lack of knowledge, maturity, and understanding — but the desire is the same.”
  3. The rebellion. “ Real, Catholic rebellion is having virtue next to the man who does not. It is to have love, drinking at a bar full of men who know only lust. It is to sow light in the darkness, to throw Hope into this fumbling, despairing world like a Molotov cocktail and to feed its flames with a reckless joy. It is living “in the world but not of the world,” yes — but it is also living in the absolute confidence that the Truth we hold can save the world.”

A quick read for those who read quickly. An enticing invitation to those seeking truth.

 

Seven point plan to redefine sexuality and marriage has my head nodding in agreement. What’s our plan?

Marriage

So far, I think this effort hasn’t made it into China. Ha! I wonder what the local marriage registration office would have to say. Nevertheless, this is a succinct treatment of the strategy the Stateside activists seem to be using. Steve Cornell wrote this at Wisdom for Life:

Seven point plan to redefine sexuality and marriage.

This is a vexing problem for many of us citizens, and especially for those who profess Christianity. It’s hard to muster the strength to argue when the terms are defined by the opposition in a way that portrays argument as un-Christian.

I’m reminded that most Christian beliefs only became written doctrine upon challenge. Nobody felt the need to write it all down — and indeed, most of our doctrine remained verbally traditional until someone adopted a divergent belief. Only when challenged did the Church find it necessary to meet, consider, and publish the truth. We reduced to writing the things we believed when someone else wrote heresy, having been entirely satisfied beforehand to know the truth without having to read it. In other words (if I understand this correctly) a good portion of Christian doctrine is counter-argument to heresy.

Which thought allows me to opine that we now are attempting (some better than others) to counter-argue the question of marriage from a similar position — we know what it is, all right, but until recently we haven’t had to argue the truth we’ve traditionally accepted. Now that we have a well-prepared opposition confronting us, we must gather together our thoughts and promulgate the truth about marriage as we have routinely come to accept it — as your parents did, and theirs, and theirs.

This is actually not an easy task for many of us, it appears. Certainly not for me.