Can "Reparation Therapy" Work?
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Wednesday, September 14, 2011
My intent was to publish something about the Triumph of the Cross, today’s feast.
I decided this reflection on same-sex attraction provides an exemplar of how a cross can lead to triumph.
Responding to homosexual scoffing at so-called “reparation therapy,” a chaplain for the Courage apostolate wrote this in his local paper.
The plain truth is that people with same-sex attractions experience them... READ MORE
June Brides
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Tuesday, June 08, 2010
With high profile divorces much in the news, it’s good to remember that many marriages succeed.
Last Sunday Archbishop Donald Wuerl presided over a Mass in which almost 600 couples married 25 years or more renewed their wedding vows.
The annual blessing of long-married couples has become a tradition in the Archdiocese of Washington.
The Washington Post has the story.
What’s interesting is that none... READ MORE
The Other Vocation Crisis
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Marriage on Tuesday, January 26, 2010
“Priest shortage.”
That’s what usually comes to mind when we hear the term “vocations crisis.”
In an interview last summer, however, New York’s Archbishop Dolan said the real vocation crisis in our country is in matrimony, not holy orders.
Take care of matrimony, he said, and there will be no shortage of priests and religious.
It is a truism of spirituality that marriage and consecrated life are bound together such that what harms one harms the other.
And vice versa.
Last fall, spurred on by what they see as far too many people who don’t really understand what marriage is—“either as a natural institution or a Christian sacrament”—the bishops of the United States released a pastoral letter on that topic.
Read Marriage: Love & Life in the Divine Plan here.
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