New York City Archbishop Dolan is in Spain for an international gathering of young Catholics. EWTN interviews him about promoting a healthy marriage culture among young people:
Archbishop Timothy Dolan predicts that the recent redefinition of marriage in New York will have a “big impact” on future attempts by young people to build up Catholic family life.
“That’s a good example of how our young people find, very often, the culture of our society to be at odds with what they treasure as Catholics,” the Archbishop of New York told EWTN News...
Archbishop Dolan says the most effective thing that young Catholics can now do to defend marriage is “to model happy, faithful, life-giving marriage. That’s the best thing we can do.”
But he also stressed that young Catholics will have to be prepared to “never to shy away from the prophetic part of speaking the truth” in “letting people know that the defense of traditional marriage is not just some weird, superstitious, medieval Catholic cause.” Instead, it “is at the heart of what makes it for the common good - namely providing the healthiest, most wholesome environment for children.”
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Yeah! Just like Dolan did! Oh wait.
The best thing is to focus on one's own marriage and happiness and not get caught up on other people's marriages and happiness. I am very pro marriage. I am for marriage equality.
Nothing is more important to marriage than the prohibition of what only its advocates call "marriage equality".
The Archbishop sounds like a man prepared to retreat into an intellectual ghetto. He bears a great personal responsibility for the destruction of marriage in New York. He came too late, with too little.
The Archbishop came too late with too little. May the rest of the bishops learn, and not repeat the same mistake.
Protecting marriage shouldnt have anything to do with gays- afterall who cares what goes on behind closed doors? If mormons wanted polygamy, if muslims wanted pedophile marriage or if some loons in the South wanted to marry their cousins the response of the NOM would be the same. Im a Russian Orthodox christian the church teaches that sex isnt something to be enjoyed, rather neccesary to procreate. You are not supposed to enjoy this life, you are supposed to enjoy the divine reward in the afterlife!
Umm, Mikhail, with all due respect the Orthodox Church holds to the apostolic and biblical truth that marriage is between a man and a woman. Natural law, including the evidence of biological complementarity itself, confirms that this truth is equally binding on the religious and secular conscience. Whether someone enjoys sex or not has, quite literally nothing whatsoever to do with it.
The Archbishop should completely sever ties with Cuomo and any politician or person who supports gay "marriage".
Then the churches will be very empty because in the US a majority of Catholics support SSM according to the polls. similarly in Argentina, Ireland etc
A religion is defined as a set of beliefs and those who hold them,not a set of people and whatever they happen to believe.Catholics,like all persons of good sense of whatever faith,have a duty to oppose and abolish SSM.