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I. Family planning and married fulfillment
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:11 — webmaster(International Review, 13 (1989), 189-196)
Thirty years ago large families were a frequent and typically Catholic phenomenon. Today, in the developed world, they tend to be a rarity, also among Catholics. The swing to the small sized family began in the 60s, and has intensified ever since. Three main explanations would seem to stand out: the demographic scare, or the "population bomb"; the "I-generation", with its emphasis on self-fulfillment, especially through work; the consumer mentality as shown in a preference for material values.
Sex and Gender: a spectrum of views
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:09 — webmasterThe Conjugal Act and Procreativity: CORMAC BURKE
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Sticking to the Commitment of Love (Scottish Catholic Observer, May 1994)
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:08 — webmasterYoung people need to realize that when they marry, they are going to marry someone with defects; and therefore, when they fall in love, if they think that the other person has no defects, they are wrong. Just as they would be wrong if, after marrying and beginning to discover the other person's defects, they let themselves think that love is at an end. On the contrary, it is then that love has come to a turning point towards - or away from - maturity.
Marriage in crisis: Osservatore Romano (Engl. Ed.), Sept. 23, 1976
Thu, 07/29/2010 - 18:06 — webmasterMarriage in crisis
Has man lost faith in marriage?
Marriage seems to have gone wrong for modern man. He seems uncertain about it, and even disillusioned. The growing frequency of divorce in countries where it is permitted, and the campaign for it where it is not yet legal, are proof of this unhappy situation. People, after all, can only regard the legalization of divorce as 'progress' to the extent to which they feel that marriage is likely to break down--just as people tend to look for a money-back warranty only insofar as they feel they are unlikely to be satisfied with the goods they have purchased. There is no getting away from the fact: a world that is beginning to believe in divorce is beginning to disbelieve in marriage.
